14 DAY TRIAL // Cancer comes in various types, and, thus, there are several ways it can be treated. For melanoma affecting someone's face, radiotherapy is fairly popular. Apparently, 3D printing can help even here.
Cancer treatments basically use chemicals or radiations in order to kill your cells en masse, hoping your cancerous ones will die out before the rest of you.
A crude description, and the reason why they can't save patients whose disease has progressed beyond a certain point, and why some can't be treated at all.
Melanoma is among the treatable ones, and a medical physicist working with a patient suffering from it decided to try something new.
So he placed a request for a 3D printed protective mask (a radiotherapy mould meant to keep the patient absolutely still), so amateur 3D printing artist Darren Ditto made one using a Cube X Duo 3D Printer.
It was made based on a 3D scan of the patient's face, and can really help those with high pain levels, because it's non-invasive.