Apart from conventional surgical equipment, each operating room is equipped with the most recent technologies and techniques in the field of robotics, laparoscopic and microscopic surgery. In particular, the CCC uses the Da Vinci Xi Surgical System, a state-of-the-art platform optimised for performing complex surgeries, with 3DHD vision and complete anatomical access, using high-precision movements that go well beyond the human hand’s capabilities.

With the acquisition of this system, the first such equipment to be available in Portugal, the CCC is able to perform the most technologically advanced surgical procedures. The excellence of the Surgical Centre’s facilities thus allows us to commit to the different areas of minimally invasive surgery - namely, oncoplastic surgery for breast cancer, single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery and laparoscopic or robotic surgery for pelvic and abdominal pathologies (prostate, urinary tract, ovarian, uterine, and colorectal cancers). Our surgeons have extensive experience in these innovative surgical modalities, which represent a huge gain for patients, due to both the shorter recovery periods and the enhanced quality of life.

The CCC also has a surgical unit for outpatients, with a hybrid room that combines all the capabilities of an operating room with high definition medical imaging equipment. In this unit, it is possible to perform surgical procedures, as well as interventional radiology, with 3D intraoperative (during the surgery) imaging. With this operating room, it is possible to perform so-called “multidisciplinary surgery”, in which various professionals - surgeons, radiologists, anaesthesiologists, nurses – perform surgeries coupled with “on-site” acquisition of high-acuity and high-definition images, in order to identify and correct, in real-time, problems that could arise with the patients.

The strong commitment to the qualification and advanced training component for these Minimally Invasive Surgery methodologies is based on close collaborations established with Reference Centres and International Consultants: In the areas of colon and rectum, with Professors Bill Heald, from the Pelican Cancer Foundation, Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Geerard Beats, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Maastricht University, Netherlands, and Amjad Parvaiz, from Spyer Portsmouth Hospital, United Kingdom; for prostate and urinary tract surgeries, with Professor Renaud Bollens, of the Groupe Hospitalier de l’Institut Catholique de Lille, França, Dr. Christophe Assenmacker, of the Catholic University in Louvain, Belgium, and Dr. Aldo Bocciardi, of the Niguarda Hospital, in Milan, Italy.

Additionally, following the work developed in this area and thus reinforcing our assumed commitment to being at the forefront in terms of innovation and development in surgery, the CCC hosts the EARCS - European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery – an international collaborative programme whose goal is to provide advanced training to European colorectal surgeons in the field of robotics.