4D-printed breast implants, you say? But only for cancer patients

Medical staff examine a mammogram for signs of cancer. Irish researchers have come up with 4D breast implants that can deliver cancer-killing drugs, while self-adjusting to fit the individual patient's breast cavity. — dpa

In what they claim is a world-first, researchers at the United Kingdom's Queen's University Belfast (QUB) have produced 4D printed chemotherapeutic implants to help breast cancer patients.

The "multipurpose" shape-shifting prints can "change size to better fit within the breast cavity" and "have the ability to release chemotherapy drugs," the university said last week (July 2023).