Mexican students develop 3D breast prostheses

This year alone in the United States will more than 266,000 women be diagnosed with breast cancer. This disease is the one that attacks most women in the world, and often leads to a mastectomy. This process can be painful and difficult, so it is important to have the necessary support to cope. This is where students from the University of Guadalajara, in Mexico, saw an opportunity: they created the Cali Project and developed 3D breast prostheses.

It is not the first time that we talk about the usefulness of 3D printing for the treatment of various diseases. In particular, when it comes to breast cancer, it has been discovered that additive manufacturing can help its early detection. At the University of Colorado in Boulder a research team working with NASA bioprinted cancer cells structures to be able to better understand and develop a treatment for it.

In Mexico, thousands of women are waiting to receive a prosthesis appropriate to their needs. For this reason, Erick Muñoz Arellano, student of chemical engineering at the University Center of Exact Sciences and Engineering of the University of Guadalajara, decided to get down to work and create 3D breast prostheses adapted to the needs of each patient.