A U.S. cancer patient just received the world’s second successful penis transplant. Here’s how this advancing science brings hope to other patients and combat veterans alike.
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VIDEO CLIPS:
Cancer from a healthy cell to a cancer cell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhQllh46yI
Microscope Imaging Station Cancer Cells behaving badly [sub. ITA]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXaF7ZJii8
Doctors Complete First US Penis Transplant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_W9P8_wEt8
Organ Retrieval – Brain Dead Donor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNFWYYJjeA
Cape surgeons conduct first ever successful penile transplant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BInnfUIEtU
SOURCES:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237058587_Whole-mount_evaluation_of_penectomies_for_penile_cancer_Feasibility_cost_and_comparison_to_routine_sectioning
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/health/thomas-manning-first-penis-transplant-in-us.html?_r=0
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trickiest-part-first-successful-penis-transplant-finding-donor-180954639/?no-ist
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/sep/18/medicineandhealth.china
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