Matt Morano's Story

News 14 meteorologist Matt Morano underwent prostate cancer surgery at Wake Forest Baptist after being diagnosed with the disease. Learn more about his story -- and robot-assisted surgery -- in these reports:

Part 1: Matt Morano's Story.

Part Two: Matt returns to work

Want to learn more? The webcasts featured below show Department of Urology surgeons perform robot-assisted surgery – a minimally invasive option that is associated with a shorter recovery – to treat prostate and kidney cancer.

Prostate Cancer Surgery Hemal performs a robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and A. Karim Kader, M.D., Ph.D., and Joseph A. Pettus, M.D., specialists in urologic oncology in the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist, narrate the procedure and answer questions.  

Kidney Cancer Surgery, Ashok K. Hemal, M.D., a pioneer of urologic robotic surgery throughout the world, performs a robot-assisted surgery to remove a patient’s kidney tumor and spare the kidney. Hemal, director of the Robotic and Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery Program at Wake Forest Baptist, helped develop many of the initial protocols for robotic surgery used by many urologists. A. Karim Kader, M.D., Ph.D., a specialist in urologic oncology in the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist, narrates the procedure.