I had my entire penis removed due to cancer but I was lucky, doctors built me a new one

A 37-year-old newlywed knew something was terribly wrong with his penis when he discovered a cauliflower-shaped growth beneath his foreskin in 2022.Then came a discharge that smelled like spoiled fish.He also suffered severe pain and a startling change in his urine stream.He hoped it was a fungal infection and bought medication online, but his wife wasn’t fooled.

She booked him an appointment with a doctor who confirmed his worst fears — penile cancer.“I was terrified at the word ‘cancer,’ and I thought that was the end of me,” Paul Lucas, now 40, told Hype Press.“I knew nothing about penile cancer at this point, and the treatment sounded horrendous, especially after finding out I could lose some of my penis.”Lucas lost his entire penis — a procedure called a penectomy — but doctors were able to construct a new one over a series of procedures.His new penis gave him a new lease on life — and some interesting side effects.“I finally feel happy in my body again and feel attractive for Nicky,” Lucas said of his wife, 38.Lucas, a local government officer from Dudley, UK, figured doctors would simply cut off the head of his penis, since that’s where the growth was.He wasn’t told until 24 hours after the October 2022 surgery that his entire penis had been removed, though he already suspected it was gone when his catheter tube was pulled.“It was causing me incredible amounts of pain and discomfort, so I was, in a way, happy I wouldn’t be in pain,” Lucas said of the penectomy.He was able to fully survey the damage on his second night home from the hospital, when Nicky changed his bandage.“I hid my face under a pillow and just cried,” Lucas recalled to Hype Press.“I asked her to leave me if she wished, without guilt, as she had a life to live and I was now a d–kless man and felt useless.”Instead, she helped wash his body, changed his dressings and catheter and accompanied him to appointment after appointment.Lucas said the operat...