American cancer patient gets new *****

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American cancer patient gets new *****
First time transplant performed in U.S.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Monday, May 16, 2016 07:20 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, May 16, 2016 08:29 AM EDT
BOSTON -- A cancer patient has received the first ***** transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday.
Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted ***** in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor.
The New York Times first reported the transplant Monday.
Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, who helped lead the surgical team, tells the newspaper that normal urination should be possible for the 64-year-old Manning in a few weeks, with sexual function possible in weeks to months.
The Times reports most of Manning's ***** was removed during his battle with penile cancer.
The world's first ***** transplant was performed at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa in December 2014.
That patient had his ***** amputated three years earlier after complications from a circumcision performed in his late teens.
The university near Cape Town said in announcing the transplant in March 2015 that the 21-year-old patient, whose name was not released, made a full recovering following the nine-hour surgery and regained all function in the transplanted organ.
A man in China received a ***** transplant in 2005. That operation also appeared to be successful, but doctors said the man asked them to remove his new ***** two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by him and his wife.
Associated Press writer Patrick Mairs in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/16/american-cancer-patient-gets-new-*****
 
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***** transplants? OMG, what next?

By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, May 16, 2016 05:25 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, May 16, 2016 06:01 PM EDT
Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock was a bookshelf staple when I grew up in the 1970s.

“Future shock,” Toffler warned, “is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.”

I don’t recall anything in Future Shock about ***** transplants.

It is so hard to keep up.

On the weekend, I wrote of how Toronto city council is bracing for the imminent arrival on our streets of robot cars, or autonomous vehicles (AV). Not-too-distant future shock.

“We see computers going wrong every day,” reader Nick Bird emails. “I worked in ‘electronics’ and it scares me.”

Then Disney reported it is working on robots to replace the humans who play Mickey Mouse, Goofy and other characters at its theme parks. The androids are so clever they can thread a needle.

Speaking of which, on Monday, surgeons in Boston announced they had transplanted a ***** onto bank courier Thomas Manning, 64, who had lost his to penile cancer.

“We hope to make this kind of experimental surgery safe and routine,” one of the lead surgeons, Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, said. The world’s first recipient, 18 months ago in South Africa, went on to father a child.

Talk about future shock, eh, fella? The fact there is such a thing as penile cancer is gut-wrenching enough, let alone they’re transplanting *****. Will it soon be cosmetic surgery? Will you be able to upgrade? “Super size me?”

Seriously, of course, ***** transplant surgeries will be a godsend for the unluckiest of men, including wounded soldiers.

But they contribute to future shock.

Look in the mirror. No, silly boy, higher. Your face.

Is it blank, apathetic? Is there a touch of booze, weed, or other escapist substances, in those eyes?

Are you disoriented, confused, uncertain? Your values and intellect all muddled?

If so, you are likely a future shock victim, as diagnosed by Toffler.

“As the pace of change quickens,” he wrote, “this confusion is tinged with self-doubt, anxiety and fear. He (the victim) grows tense, tires easily. He may fall ill.

“As the pressures relentlessly mount, tension shades into irritability, anger and, sometimes, senseless violence. Little events trigger enormous responses. Large events bring inadequate responses.”

Sound familiar? Then you’re a Leafs fan. Or you’ve got a bad case of future shock.

Toffler predicted in 1970 much of what you see around you in today’s crazy, mixed-up world, from the Internet to instant celebrity to refugee crises.

He also predicted we’d live in underwater cities and wear disposable paper clothes, but never mind. Even Nostradamus missed a few. Besides, is Toffler’s forecast of family space vehicles all that far off from robot cars, which are currently in highway tests?

There is so much more coming down the road — or already here. 3D printing will soon get to the point where you can print up organs, such as your new *****. You will be able to protect it under a force field right out of Star Trek or hide it with a cloaking device.

You’ll even be able to control it with your mind. That’ll future shock the hell out of her.

Strobel’s column usually runs Monday to Thursday. Hear him at 94.9 The Rock Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

mstrobel@postmedia.com
Thomas Manning gives a thumbs up after being asked how he was feeling following the first ***** transplant in the United States, in Boston,in this May 13, 2016 photo provided by Massachusetts General Hospital. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor. (Sam Riley/Mass General Hospital via AP)

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I wonder, had there been no peenises available, could have have opted for a vaggina? He might have been able to recoup the costs for the operation, had he been a Canuckian citoyen.

The doctor probably warned him that he would be the butt of jokes. His response?

"I don't think so, doctor. Don't be a dick!"

Then the doctor said, "We're going to have to take a long, hard look at your future."

To which the man replied, "No worries about that, doc. The donor was white. My one and only chance to improve and you blew it!"

The doctor blushed and told him, "Certainly not! I never!"
 
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If ever there was a time to 'hang up the gloves', . . . . . pile on the morphine, let's not be stupid about this.
 
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New ***** makes cancer patient 'complete'
Philip Marcelo, The Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 05:28 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:08 PM EDT
BOSTON -- The recipient of the nation's first ***** transplant says he is looking forward to walking out of the hospital a "complete" man.
"There is no doubt in my mind that everything is going to work. And I mean everything," 64-year-old Thomas Manning said Wednesday with a grin as he continued to recover at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "You can interpret that any way you wish."
Seated by a window overlooking the Charles River, Manning was upbeat and chatty after undergoing the 15-hour operation last week.
The former Halifax, Massachusetts, bank courier whose organ was amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012 has been ambling around his room with a walker and said he doesn't feel any pain.
He has taken a few peeks under the gauze covering his new *****, which was taken from a deceased donor, and the swelling and discoloration appear to be diminishing. He said he believes the nerves are even starting to reconnect.
"I just can feel like movement and life in it already," Manning said. "I feel that we belong together."
Manning is just the third man in the world to receive a new *****, following transplants in South Africa in 2014 and China in 2005.
The South African patient remains healthy and was able to father a child, though the baby was stillborn. The Chinese man, however, had his new ***** removed weeks later because he said it made him and his wife uncomfortable.
The revolutionary procedure could give hope to cancer survivors, accident victims and maimed soldiers.
Manning's doctors said in announcing the operation on Monday that they hoped to release him sometime this week. But Manning said he will stay and undergo largely cosmetic surgery on Monday to improve the organ's appearance.
"They're in no rush, and I'm in no rush," Manning said. "Let's get this done right."
He vowed: "I'm going to walk out of here complete."
Doctors said that it will be a few more weeks before Manning can urinate normally and that sexual function is farther down the line. But reproduction is not possible since Manning didn't receive new testes.
As for the prospects of having a sex life again, Manning, who is single, never married and has no children, said: "When it happens it happens. I don't have to push it. I hope to be around for another 20 or 30 years. Will it still be working by then? I sure hope so."
Manning's penile cancer was discovered after a workplace accident in which he slipped on ice. Doctors told him they needed to take aggressive action to save his life.
"Part of me was really devastated," Manning said. "I didn't feel like less of a man, but I went through my own version of hell."
He said he had been asking his doctor almost ever since to put him on the short list for a transplant.
"I would have went to the moon for this," Manning said. "I mean, why not? They cut my ***** off, and I wanted it back. It's not that complicated."
But Manning said he never hesitated about going public.
"The bottom line is you can't worry about what other people think. You've got to get on with your life," he said. "I happen to be the first person to receive a ***** transplant. What's the big deal?"
Thomas Manning, of Halifax, Mass., reacts during an interview in his hospital room at Massachusetts General Hospital, on May 18, 2016, in Boston. Manning is the first man in the United States to undergo a ***** transplant. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Man who got first U.S. ***** transplant released from hospital
Collin Binkley, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 09:00 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 09:09 PM EDT
BOSTON -- A man who received the nation's first ***** transplant calls the operation a success and is going home.
Thomas Manning left Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday, three weeks after the grueling 15-hour surgery. The 64-year-old travelled with his mother and a family friend back to his home in Halifax, where he looked forward to a spaghetti dinner and a night in his own bed.
"We're going to go home, just take it easy, have a nice, relaxing night," Manning said as he prepared to leave his hospital room. "It's almost all over. The worst of it is all done."
After two follow-up surgeries, Manning said, he can urinate normally and he's back to walking around. Sexual function is still months away, though, and reproduction won't be possible because he did not receive new testes.
Manning, whose ***** was amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012, never married and has no children.
When he described looking under the bandages for the first time, he became emotional. He still has dozens of stitches, and the swelling has yet to subside.
"It took me a few days to look at it, so confidence comes and goes," he said, blinking away tears. "It's one of those things that, if you look at it, it doesn't look too good."
But Manning is optimistic that he'll make a full recovery in the coming months and that his body will accept the transplant. Through it all, Manning said he hasn't felt any pain from the surgery.
"I got the A-Team here," he said. "They've been taking care of me like you can't imagine. I'm recovering no matter what they do to me."
Manning is the third man in the world to receive a new *****, following transplants in South Africa in 2014 and China in 2005.
The procedure could benefit cancer survivors, accident victims and wounded soldiers. By sharing his story, Manning said he wants to give others hope in the operation.
Soon after his amputation, Manning started asking his doctor about the possibility of a transplant. When he was chosen and arrived at the hospital in May, it still felt as though he was just a local guy getting treated at the local hospital, he said. Only last week, lying in his hospital bed, it had finally sunk in that he was the first in the U.S. to get the procedure.
"I didn't think too much of it, and then it hit me that I was the only one," he said, his voice faltering. "That's when it hit me."
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/01/man-who-got-first-us-*****-transplant-released-from-hospital
 
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