8.16.2009
World Record Heart Transplant Recipient Dies Of Cancer
Tony Huesman, the world's longest surviving single heart transplant recipient died at age 51 of cancer on Sunday evening, nearly 31 years after receiving a heart from an anonymous donor at a US hospital. Huesman, who lived in Washington Township, Dayton, Ohio, died from melonoma, a form of skin cancer, his wife Carol told Dayton Daily News.