News tagged with voice box

Doctors successfully implant synthetic larynx piece into two patients

(Medical Xpress) -- Doctors working at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, have for the first time, successfully implanted a synthetically grown integral part of the human larynx into two live ...

Medical research Jun 29, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

Study links 23 microRNAs to laryngeal cancer

A Henry Ford Hospital study has identified 23 microRNAs for laryngeal cancer, a discovery that could yield new insight into what causes certain cells to grow and become cancerous tumors in the voice box.

Cancer Sep 13, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Robotic surgery effective for removing hard-to-reach throat cancer

Robotic surgery has become a mainstream tool for removing an ever-increasing variety of head and neck tumors. Now, a team of head and neck surgeons from Mayo Clinic has found robotic surgery can treat cancer in the narrow, ...

Cancer Apr 29, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Novel one-step system for restoring voice in throat cancer patients

Patients who have lost their voice box through disease such as throat cancer may be able to speak immediately after a procedure to create a small opening at the throat. A novel system developed through an ...

Surgery Oct 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Campaign has smokers listening to smoking's victims

(HealthDay)—A frank and graphic nationwide media campaign to motivate smokers to quit seems to be working, say researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Addiction Nov 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0