Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoking doesn't just cause lung cancer. It's also a major risk factor for cancers of the trachea, which is the main air passageway ...

Following the rare, 21-hour surgery, Marty Kedian fulfilled his dream of reading his new granddaughter stories in his own voice Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. — On Feb. 29, Mayo Clinic marked a milestone: its first larynx transplant. It is only the third transplant of its kind in the United States and the first done on a patient with cancer.

A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one. Transplants of the so-called voice box are extremely ...

A laryngectomy is a major surgery that is done to remove your voice box, or larynx. Your larynx is the part of your throat that contains your voice box. It’s located at the upper end of your windpipe ...

For years, Marty Kedian had been without a voice. Kedian, who hails from Haverhill, Mass., has undergone dozens of surgeries while being treated for a rare form of laryngeal cancer. As a result, he ...

A man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one. Transplants of the so-called voice box are extremely rare, and ...

Laryngotracheobronchitis is a form of croup, the term for a common group of respiratory conditions that mostly affect infants and children. It’s highly treatable with corticosteroids, rest, and ...

There are four stages of laryngeal cancer. They are slightly different depending on where in your larynx the cancer starts. Laryngeal cancer happens when abnormal (cancerous) cells start to grow in ...

CONGENITAL anomalies involving the larynx, trachea and esophagus are rare. Five types of tracheal and esophageal anomalies have been described by Ladd. 1 Sayre and Hall 2 reported 2 cases of anomalies ...

When a mouthful of water goes down the wrong pipe – heading toward a healthy person’s lungs instead of their gut – they start coughing uncontrollably. That’s because their upper airway senses the ...

Smoking doesn’t just cause lung cancer. It’s also a major risk factor for cancers of the trachea, which is the main air passageway (also called the windpipe), and the larynx (the voice box). Laryngeal ...