Chinese Doctors Perform Innovative Cancer Surgery thanks to 3D Printing

We've seen 3D printing used in many instances within the medical field. We've seen it used to help doctors remove tumors, fix a child's heart, and much more. Now doctors in China are using the technology for the creation of a template for the injection of radioactive seeds into cancer tissue in a woman's sinus area. Radioactive Seed Implantation is a process by which radioactive "seed", about the size of a grain of rice are injected with needles into cancer cells. These seeds destroy the cancer tissue without harming surrounding cells. It is a very difficult process to get these seeds in just the right area, but thanks to a 3D printed template that researchers were able to make, this process has gotten a lot easier. Read and see more at: http://3dprint.com/20038/3d-printed-cancer-surgery/

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