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    Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS): Setup and Basics
    (University of Cape Town, 2025-05-18) Mokhtari, Tara; Abt, Nicholas; Larson, Andrew; Holcomb, Andrew; Jeremy, Richmon; Fagan, Johan
    Over the last two decades the use of surgical robots has become increasingly commonplace. Initial reports of using robots to assist in surgical procedures date to the mid-1980’s with rapid technological evolution in computing and robotics since that time. While first widely adopted in the field of general surgery, use of the surgical robot has spread to almost all other surgical sub-specialties. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has become a widely accepted approach to provide minimally invasive access to the upper aerodigestive tract. In parallel with such surgical innovation, the shift in epidemiology of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and increased incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related disease has renewed interest in comparing surgical and nonsurgical treatments as well as treatment deintensification. In this context, TORS has been widely adopted in many high-resource settings as a first-line surgical treatment for selected oropharyngeal tumours of the palatine and lingual tonsils and base of tongue.