ArticleChronic diseases and translational medicine2026
From Surgical Innovation to Population Impact: Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy and the Evolution of Surgical Public Health in Brazil's Unified Health System.
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Abstract
Brazil's Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) represents one of the world's largest universal health systems and provides a unique real-world platform for integrating prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship across the cancer continuum. While One Health frameworks have traditionally focused on infectious diseases, environmental exposures, and planetary health, their application to surgical oncology and health-system innovation remains insufficiently explored. This article proposes that the SUS offers a valuable model for operationalizing One Health and population health principles in prostate cancer care by connecting environmental, social, biological, and healthcare system determinants across the patient journey. The recent incorporation of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) into the SUS represents a critical milestone in this evolution. Beyond the adoption of an advanced surgical technology, this initiative illustrates the capacity of a universal health system to evaluate, implement, and monitor complex innovations while balancing effectiveness, equity, sustainability, and population-level impact. The Brazilian experience highlights the emergence of a learning health system in which real-world evidence, implementation science, surgical quality assessment, and health policy interact to guide innovation at the national scale. In this context, RARP serves as a case study of how technological advances can be integrated into publicly funded healthcare while generating evidence relevant to diverse populations and healthcare settings. By bridging concepts from Surgical Public Health, population health, health-systems science, implementation science, and One Health, the SUS provides a distinctive framework for understanding how surgical innovation can contribute to resilient and equitable cancer care. As translational oncology increasingly incorporates environmental, societal, and biological determinants of disease, Brazil offers important lessons on the governance, evaluation, and dissemination of high-complexity surgical technologies within universal health systems. The insights emerging from this experience may help inform future strategies to optimize prostate cancer care and strengthen health-system resilience globally.
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