21.   DeMarco said Mantle requested shortly after his transplant surgery in June that the cancer diagnosis be kept a secret.

22.   DeMarco said Mantle requested shortly after his transplant surgery that the cancer diagnosis be kept a secret.

23.   Earlier this week, Novello sent a two-page letter to the six hospitals in New York currently performing liver transplant surgery.

24.   GEORGE WOLFE, the artistic director of the Public Theater, underwent successful kidney transplant surgery two weeks ago at New York Hospital.

25.   Harvey had been hospitalized since undergoing heart transplant surgery in April.

26.   He had been semicomatose in the days leading up to his heart transplant surgery, but now the transplant was working well and he was alert and communicative.

27.   He hired her to get him in shape for transplant surgery.

28.   His doctors said Tuesday that on the most sensitive scans available, they saw no signs of cancer beyond his liver three days before the transplant surgery.

29.   Hofmann said he was not aware of any other group that has attempted knee transplants, in part because few orthopedic surgeons have had experience with transplant surgery.

30.   If the cancer has spread before transplant surgery, the chances of producing a lasting cure by giving the patient a healthy new organ are very slight.