Penis operation highlights past, future of organ transplants

CHICAGO (AP) — Add one remarkable case to the 30,000-plus organ transplants expected to be performed nationwide this year: A cancer patient who received a donor penis.

[...] the vast majority of operations involve more conventional organs.

Since the nation's first successful human organ transplant in 1954, involving a kidney, more than 700,000 organ transplants have been done nationwide.

FACE

Since the world's first face transplant in France in 2005 on a woman mauled by family dog, about 30 more have been done.