Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, discussed how robot-assisted surgery for colorectal cancers has evolved over the past 20 years. CancerNetwork® spoke with Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, FACS, FASCRS, executive medical director of Surgical Services, the vice chair of Clinical Network Surgery in the Department of Surgery, and clinical professor in the division of Colorectal Surgery at City of Hope Orange County, about his recent appointment as executive medical director of Colorectal Surgery by City of Hope Orange County. The appointment comes 20 years after Pigazzi performed the first robot-assisted tumor removal for rectal cancer. He expressed how robot-assisted surgery has evolved since he had conducted this procedure.