Current and Future Applications of 3D Printing in Breast Cancer Management

3D printing technology has been around for about 40 years. In medicine, we have seen rapid expansion across almost every subspecialty from pre-surgical planning to production of patient-specific surgical devices to simulation and training. However, there is a notable lack of literature on the applications of 3D printing in breast cancer management.

Tatiana Kelil, MD is an assistant professor of clinical radiology in the Breast Imaging section at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and serves as a co-director for the UCSF Center for Advanced 3D+ Technologies (CA3D+). Dr. Kelil is interested in advanced imaging visualization techniques and has experience with 3D post-processing, patient-specific modeling, and medical 3D printing. Dr. Kelil, along with Arpine Galstyan (MD candidate at UCSF) were corresponding authors on a review and discussion of…

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