Though 3D printing is only slowly being adopted as a means of creating custom-tailored implants, the technology has been used for such purposes even before 3D printing was “cool”. About three years ago, one doctor at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust found that, for a patient with bone cancer, only 3D printing could help. Chondrosarcoma had spread to the majority of one man’s pelvis leaving doctors with one possible option. Dr. Craig Gerrand, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon explains, “Since this cancer does not respond to drugs or radiotherapy, the only option was to remove half of the pelvis.” Though there’s always the risk that an implant might not fit a patient properly, in the case of Dr.…
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