These 3D printed implants could help patients with bone cancer

This bone cancer treatment could one day help patients with brain cancer. Surgeons would remove the tumor, scan the bone, and create a 3D print of the needed implant. It would then be placed in the patient. Here’s how it would work.

Clayton Dyer and Shira Polan

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