Australian scientists are poised to begin a three-year trial on a revolutionary surgery to help cancer victims regrow their breasts.
The experimental stem cell breast-growing technique – called Neopec – could replace breast reconstructions and implants for cancer victims within years.
Scientists from the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne will implant fat cells, which will multiple rapidly within a biodegradable shell and be shaped into the breast she lost during cancer surgery.
The new technique has already been proved in pigs, which grew new breasts in just six weeks.
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