Creates system to remove bone cancer

Decades ago, bone cancer treated with amputation of the affected limb, but thanks to the advances of Science today can be computer-assisted surgery to preserve anatomical structures healthy.

Luis a. Aponte you-Tinao, winner of the award innovators of America, in the category science and technology, has created a system that allows alta precision to select and place a bone transplant, making el operated member function is similar to having the patient before suffering oncological disease.

"Perhaps what drew most attention is that we together with the engineering medicine, I think that is the great progress we have made", said Aponte - Tinao, to participate in the breakfast of LISTÍN DIARIO with the winners of other categories.

Project "Assistance computerized in oncological surgery Osteoarticular and skeletal transplants", is based on the u000adevelopment of a computer system to remove a bone tumor and rebuild the Member affected more precise, which is essential for the durability of bone transplants.

Includes the creation of a virtual bank of bones that allows the selection quickly and right the best bone for the transplant.

Because there was no market software propagated to oncological orthopaedic and bone transplants, "we had to create our own virtual platform through the transdisciplinary work, joining efforts between medical doctors and engineers".

In this way, the team that created apon you-Tinao created a planning and navigation unit in the hospital with technological developments themselves.

"Perhaps the award that has not is that the general population knows the work, but for us it really has been easy because there are 60 years of tradition in this, I am as part of a tradition and it is for me" u000a"normal", said Aponte-Tinao to be interviewed by the director of LISTÍN DIARIO, Miguel Franjul.

Visit
apon you-Tinao was accompanied by the creator of the innovators of America, the Colombian Gustavo Sorzano award, and the Dominican Felipe Pagés, director of Innovamérica.

Is estimated that the cancer bone is one of the more expensive, by the long treatment that requires. The average investment in treatment of osteosarcoma (bone cancer that usually appears at either end of the shaft of a bone) is one million dollars per patient, with a survival of a 60 per cent.

Bone cancer is more common in the knee, because it is the disc of the femur, representing 67% of these conditions.

Due to there in the market software which meets oncological orthopaedic and bone transplantation, "we had to create our own virtual platform through the transdisciplinary work" u000a"by joining efforts between medical doctors and engineers," said.

He added that in this way, they could create a drive planning and navigation in our hospital with technological developments themselves.

Transdisciplinary team between doctors and engineers, working for 3 years at a rate of approximately 20 hours weekly.

Adding so far an estimated 12,500 lines between all the members of the project.

"I think that what is science and technology there are many innovators, but there is no such dissemination, a rejection in the scientific community to be very media", expressed.

He noted that he had the luck to form a working group, where each plays a role, which integrate the doctors Lucas e. Ritacco and Germán l. Farfalli, as well as the systems engineer Frederick e. Milano.

The amount of annual transplants that is realizanen Argentina with this technique is around 200 per year.

Cancer u000abone primary accounts for 1%, but all advanced cancer in 80% ends up affecting the bones.

Stem-cell
for Dr. apon you-Tinao the use of the stem-cell represents a breakthrough, but favors that I will provide a regulatory framework, legal and ethical. "It is an issue that I think that it should be regulated by the State," considered.

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Profile of LUIS a. Aponte you-TINAO
graduated in medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, with speciality in orthopedics at the CEMIC Institute of Buenos Aires.

Experience in Oncology orthopaedics, transplantation bone in the hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, performing a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, United States.

Procedure
for the process, the bones of cadaveric donors are stored up to five years and at the time of its use is adapted to the size of the patient. "While most donor has greater variety", u000aadded the specialist.

"One cut that needed the transplant of the same size and short fixed bone with screws", explains contribution-Tinao.

Said that the bone that is frozen does not have living cells and the body uses it as a skeleton or a concrete where it will grow.

Account of the rejection, he indicated that it was very low because it is not a tissue vascularized.

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