Thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is becoming one of the most unsettling medical trends of our time. The numbers climb even as medical technology improves, and the shift is not happening in the demographic most people would expect. Younger women are increasingly facing a disease once linked mostly with aging. Many discover it only after months or years …

A woman in her 50s has received a custom-made, 3D-printed windpipe after surgery to remove thyroid cancer left part of her original airway missing. The procedure, performed in South Korea, marks a significant development in medical technology, combining living cells, specialised printing equipment, and years of scientific research to create a replacement designed specifically for …