Cancer patient in US has penis transplant

A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the US, a Boston hospital said.

Massachusetts General Hospital said that Thomas Manning, of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week.

The donor was deceased.

The New York Times first reported the transplant. Curtis Cetrulo, who led the surgical team, said normal urination should be possible for the 64-year-old in a few weeks, with sexual function possible in weeks to months.

Most of Mr Manning’s penis was removed during his battle with penile cancer.

The world’s first penis transplant was performed at the University of Stellenbosch, in South Africa, in December 2014.

That patient’s penis had been amputated three years earlier after complications from a circumcision.

The university, near Cape Town, had said in announcing the transplant in March 2015 that the 21-year-old patient made a full recovering, following the nine-hour surgery, and regained all function in the transplanted organ.

A man in China had a penis transplant in 2005, but asked doctors to remove it weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by him and his wife.