This sounds like the plot to a porn movie.  A Baltimore woman loses her ear, and part of her skull to cancer.  The brilliant doctors at John Hopkins took parts of her rib, and fashioned and created a new ear for her.  Like any cartilage based cookie, this one had to be baked to perfection.  They put it in her arm, and cooked it at 98.6 degrees for 4-5 months.  You’ll know when the edges brown.

When it was done they stitched it on her head, and off she went.  *Warning:  Do not try at home*