You may know your larynx as your voice box. It’s the part of your throat that allows you to speak and make sounds. Your larynx does more than that, though. It plays a key role in enabling and ...

Laryngeal cancer develops when cancer cells form in the tissue of the larynx, or voice box. It’s one of the most common types of head and neck cancers, affecting about 12,620 adults in the U.S ...

Doctors say a sudden change in your voice is one of several symptoms that can emerge when you have laryngeal cancer - in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the larynx, also called the ...

The larynx is a surprisingly versatile organ. Located between the mouth and the trachea, it acts as a safeguard, making sure nothing accidentally enters the lungs when we swallow. But its true ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 ...

After receiving the third-ever larynx transplant — and the first on a patient with active cancer — performed in the U.S. in February, Marty Kedian can speak again, according to Mayo Clinic.

Phoenix-based Mayo Clinic in Arizona performed the third total larynx transplant in the U.S. and the first to be performed on a patient with active cancer. The larynx, most commonly known as the ...

But a research team has drawn clues about sounds the extinct creatures could have made from what might be the first known fossilized larynx of a dinosaur. It comes from an ankylosaur, a group of ...

A Massachusetts man has his voice back after undergoing just the third successful total larynx transplant in the U.S. The Mayo Clinic replaced Marty Kedian's larynx, or voice box, to remove a rare ...