Bone Bank @ Adyar Cancer Institute
- To be established inside the Adyar Cancer Institute in the year 2019
- It will be a Rotary International Global Grant Project
- First bone bank in the South of India
- For meeting the need of Allograft bone for reconstruction of bones for procedures on cancerous and non-cancerous patients in Chennai and nearby places
- Current common procedure of using metal prosthesis – costly, and may require multiple revisions during a person’s life
- Use of Allograft bone substitutes will result in one-time permanent procedure as additional revision surgeries are not required
- Benefits of using Allograft bone:
- No limitation to the number / size of the bone
- Can be tailored intra-operatively to match size of the defect
- It would be 5 to 10 times cheaper than metal prosthesis
- Obviates long term complication of the prosthesis
- Biological reconstruction
- Permanent Solution
