First U.S. Penis Transplants To Begin Next Year

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The penis transplant aims to help veterans with severe genitourinary injuries. Oleg Ivanov IL/Shutterstock

In 2016, surgeons from Johns Hopkins University are going to perform 60 penis transplants, a type of operation which has never been conducted before in the U.S. The first will be an unnamed patient injured in Afghanistan.