With medicine being a field to most immediately disrupted by 3D printing technology, now the medical community is getting behind the technology to create new solutions to old problems. This is particularly evidenced by news that Florida Atlantic University has just received a grant from the National Institute of Health to develop a 3D printed stent to treat esophageal cancer.
While it is the eighth most common form of cancer, the treatment of esophageal cancer has so far proven difficult, with 50 to 60 percent of patients ineligible for surgery due to late tumor detection or metastases that cannot be removed surgically. …
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