Urology Robotic Surgery

Overcome cancer, find your cure and live a new story.

Ultra-precise robotic surgery for prostate and kidney cancer, with more than 2,000 procedures performed, treating the disease while preserving what makes your life worth living.

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25years in medicine
+2,000robotic surgeries

Dr. Ricardo Brandina, urologist, smiling, in a white coat

A diagnosis is not the end

Cancer does not mean the end of your story.

What paralyzes you is not the diagnosis: it is not knowing what it means. When you understand exactly where you stand and what can be done, fear begins to give way to clarity, confidence and hope.

Dr. Ricardo Brandina

No man is only a diagnosis. No surgery is only a surgery.

That is 25 years of medicine dedicated to Urology and, today, to treating prostate cancer and kidney cancer. In that time I have learned that the hardest decision is almost never about technique: it is about what needs to be preserved so that life still makes sense afterward.

Beyond being a doctor, I am a man, I am a father, and I have also overcome cancer myself. I know the impact a diagnosis has, and how much changes when fear gives way to information, experience and hope.

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25years in medicine
+2,000robotic surgeries

Training, research and teaching

Head of Robotic Surgery Hospital Evangélico de Londrina
PhD in Urology Universidade de São Paulo
Associate Professor 10 years of teaching
Professor Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Research Fellow Cleveland, United States
Clinical Fellow Robotic surgery · Los Angeles

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Dr. Ricardo Brandina standing, in a white shirt and green tie

“Behind every diagnosis there is a story, a family, many plans and someone who simply needs to find the way.”
Dr. Ricardo Brandina

Treatments

Everything I do has one focus: prostate cancer and kidney cancer.

From diagnosis to the operating room, I personally lead every step, with the same team from beginning to end.

Dr. Ricardo Brandina in the operating room, beside the robotic platform

Prostate cancer

A clear diagnosis and robotic prostatectomy performed to pursue a cure while preserving urinary control and sexual life as much as possible.

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Dr. Ricardo Brandina at the console of the Da Vinci surgical system

Kidney cancer

Robotic surgery to remove the tumor while preserving the kidney and renal function whenever the case allows.

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Dr. Ricardo Brandina in consultation, seated at his clinic desk

BPH

Treatment for an enlarged prostate to relieve obstructive urinary symptoms and restore quality of life, with modern, minimally invasive techniques.

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Protocol Ultra 360

A complete approach to overcoming cancer and living a new story.

The protocol I created to guide every patient from diagnosis back to life.

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Complete clarity

It all starts with you being heard. A complete, individualized evaluation so you understand your diagnosis and your treatment options.
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Ultra-precise surgery

Fast robotic surgery, with the least possible trauma to the body and the greatest possible preservation: urinary control, sexual life and renal function.
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A new story

Discharge usually within 24 hours and close follow-up from the team, so you can go back to making plans alongside the people you love.

From diagnosis to a new story.

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Dr. Ricardo Brandina standing, in a suit, in a low-lit space with greenery

Pioneering · Robotic surgery

Before robotic surgery existed in Brazil, I was already preparing for the future.

When robotic surgery was still practically nonexistent in Brazil, I gave up everything I had built here and moved with my family to the United States to seek out the most advanced cancer treatment in the world. I was a Research Fellow at Cleveland Clinic and a Clinical Fellow in Robotic Surgery at the University of Southern California.

I did not wait for the technology to reach me. I went after it.

Today I lead the Robotic Surgery program at Hospital Evangélico de Londrina.

New stories

Patients who decided to live a new story.

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Dr. Lauro Brandina early in his career and at his medical school graduation — Dr. Lauro Brandina

Dr. Ricardo Brandina alongside his father, Dr. Lauro Brandina — Two generations

The Brandina Legacy

Pioneering spirit runs across generations.

On June 10, 1973, my father, Dr. Lauro Brandina, led the team that performed the first kidney transplant in Paraná, at Hospital Universitário de Londrina. The patient lived more than 30 years with the transplanted organ.

A medical graduate of USP, he spent 24 years as a professor at UEL, chaired the Kidney Transplant Department of the Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia and trained generations of urologists — always with the same simplicity and the same commitment to the patient.

19731st kidney transplant in Paraná
24 yearsProfessor at UEL

I grew up inside that kind of medicine. Today, the same organ he learned to transplant is one of the organs I treat with robotic surgery. That is the legacy I honor with every new story.