Printing 3D breasts from biological materials for women who have undergone mastectomies is the challenge taken on by Healshape, a start-up based in Lyon.
Imagine if, after breast cancer and a mastectomy (total or partial removal of the breast), it were possible to regain an identical breast, created from your own tissue. A custom-made breast, with the same shape and texture as the one lost to the disease. In the medical field, biological tissue printing is developing at breakneck speed. Healshape, a company based in Lyon, is one of these new players. Its speciality? Supporting women in their post-mastectomy reconstruction journey by printing lifelike breast prostheses. The start-up, which works in partnership with the Léon-Bérard Centre (a cancer treatment centre), was founded by a group of researchers, engineers and a surgeon.