You won’t have to watch this over anybody’s shoulder — but you may need to watch it through your fingers.
A doctor at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital will use a robot to perform a prostate surgery on Monday morning, and the whole thing will be broadcast through live-streaming video.
Prostate cancer is expected to kill more than 25,000 Americans in 2016 — while another 180,000 US men will be diagnosed with the cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Streaming the surgery will help raise awareness of the issue.
Dr. Ash Tewari, who will perform the surgery, expects to remove a cancer from a man’s prostate while preserving the patient’s nervous and urinary functions.
“Why not prostate?” the star urologist told The Post, when asked why this particular surgery was chosen to be streamed around the world.
“Prostate cancer happens to be one of the biggest killers for men in the US — 28,000 a year,” Tewari said.
The two-hour surgery, which is being webcast via Microsoft Azure and LiveArena, will be watched by doctors and med students at 15 institutions worldwide.
It can be accessed beginning at 8 a.m.