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"  Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on Monday they had performed the first successful penis transplant in the United States. The recipient was 64-year-old Thomas Manning, who had to amputate part of his penis in 2012 after suffering from penile cancer.\u00A0 The surgery took 15 hours over May 8 and 9, taking time to match up the vascular and neural structures of the donor penis and the recipient&amp;#039;s body. And before that, researchers from multiple departments of the hospital worked for more than three years on the concept. The goals of a penis transplant are to reconstruct the appearance, make the urinary process work, and then possibly regain sexual function.  The hospital said doctors were &amp;quot;cautiously optimistic&amp;quot; that Manning will regain all the function he lost from cancer. According to the New York Times, Manning had been left with an inch-long &amp;quot;stump&amp;quot; after cancer\u00A0and felt hopeless when it came to relationships with women. There has only been one other successful penis transplant in the world; in 2014, a South African transplant recipient fathered a child.  Manning told the New York Times that he feels good and barely felt any pain. He also released a statement thanking his doctors and the family of the donor:\u00A0 &amp;quot;Today I begin a new chapter filled with personal hope and hope for others who have suffered genital injuries, particularly for our service members who put their lives on the line and suffer serious damage as a result. In sharing this success with all of you, it&amp;#039;s my hope we can usher in a bright future for this type of transplantation.&amp;quot; The goal of the transplant program, in the end, is to help wounded veterans, cancer patients, and victims of accidents get better not just physically, but psychologically. Massachusetts General and Johns Hopkins are both working on their next patients, including a combat veteran and a car-accident victim. All they need are matching donors.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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