picture here and this is my dad. nasser was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year. i wanted to get rid of it and that is the basis of how the operation came to be. he was asked if he wanted to be the first person in the uk to have his prostate gland removed by a new robotic system. it's nice to be part of something new within the medicalfield, that in future may contribute a lot of effectiveness, a lot of service to the community and therefore, i had no doubt about it. using 3d hd cameras and remote arms a few metres away from the patient, surgeons at guy's and st thomas's controlled robotic arms in order to carry out complicated operations. this hospital has the largest robotic surgery programme in the country with six robots carrying out operations on all different parts of the body from lungs to tonsils. surgeons here are pioneering new techniques that could soon be used across the uk.