New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- A doctor in Florida has performed surgery on a prostate cancer patient from a hospital located 35 miles away, marking the first procedure of its kind conducted between two hospitals in the United States, ABC News reported.

Dr Vipul Patel, founder and medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth Celebration in Celebration, Florida, near Orlando, used a robotic telesurgery system to remove the prostate of a 66-year-old man with cancer on Sunday.

According to the news outlet, the patient was in an operating room at AdventHealth Minneola, while Patel controlled the surgical instruments remotely from AdventHealth Celebration, located 35 miles away.

A qualified surgeon was also present in the operat...