A boy with cancer undergoes transplantation of a bone printed on a 3D printer

A boy with cancer received a bone transplant printed on a 3D printer. This is the first such operation performed in western Ukraine.

Medicine in a new way

Plastic prototypes of bones printed on a 3D printer act as navigators during surgery. Visualization of nerves and blood vessels on the model helps to prevent difficult situations and prepare for surgery in more detail.

Technologies are already saving lives: a unique operation was performed at the Kyiv Cancer Institute

Doctors performed a unique surgery on a 16-year-old Ukrainian man whose cancer had destroyed almost half of his pelvic bones, despite the enormous area of the lesion. Together with scientists and modern technology, they implanted new bones made on a 3D printer into the Ukrainian's body. This is the third such operation in the history of Ukraine and the first one that doctors are talking about aloud. Previously, such operations cost a lot of money, but now the process has become much cheaper, and more and more people who have suffered such a fate are getting a chance to live. Read more about this in the story.

Technologies that give a chance for a full life

In the story of Ukraine 24, we talked about the benefits of 3D printing bones from titanium and how this new technology for Ukraine is already saving lives.