3D printer makes man's heel (SBS)
Doctors have used a 3D printer to help save a Melbourne man from losing his leg to cancer.
Builder Len Chandler feared that he was going to lose his foot.
Bone cancer had eaten a hole in his heel and had made it difficult for him to walk.
But in July, the 71-year-old travelled from Rutherglen in Victoria to Melbourne to undergo a pioneering procedure using a titanium heel made in a 3D printer.
"I never knew the operation would be this successful or this important," says Chandler.
"I thought it might be the first time this had been done in Victoria.
"I didn't r...
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