Cancer takes voice, but Marietta woman moves on Feb 29, 2008
Janice Hayes and a friend stepped into the elevator after leaving a recent meeting of the Greater Atlanta Voice Masters, a support group for people who have lost their vocal cords to larynx cancer. The two were talking and laughing through prosthetic devices that give their new "voices" a raspy edge. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
What Factors Are Associated With Survival In Advanced Laryngeal Cancer? Dec 19, 2007
1, 2003) Results of a national clinical trial confirm that simultaneous treatment with chemotherapy and radiation preserves the voice of patients with advanced larynx cancer without compromising survival. (Oct. (Science Daily)
VA rebuked for balking on care Jul 20, 2007
Since then, Stichman said, Vietnam veterans suffering from Type 2 diabetes, lung cancer, multiple myeloma, larynx cancer, trachea cancer, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcoma and prostate cancer have received $30 million in disability benefits. The VA asserted that veterans were not entitled to retroactive disability benefits over prostate cancer, but Henderson and the 9th Circuit ruled in their favor several years ago. (Los Angeles Times)
Learning as a bus ride Apr 3, 2007
The story chronicles the years from 1992 through 2005, when Silin cared for his father, who had larynx cancer, and his mother, who had had a stroke. The bus ride from his parents' house in New York City to his Long Island home became a writing refuge where, Silin said, the genesis of My Father's Keeper occurred. (Daily Iowan, IA)
More Teens Are Saying, 'Have a Cigar' Feb 25, 2007
According to data from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, smoking just one or two cigars a day doubles the risk for oral and esophageal cancer and increases larynx cancer risk six-fold. Risks rise even higher once users decide to inhale cigar smoke. (Health-Finder)
* World News Quick Take Jan 26, 2007
"Although there is pathological correlation between their smoking and the diseases ... there is no evidence to acknowledge that the lung and larynx cancer of the complainants were caused by smoking the cigarettes sold by the defendant," Yonhap news agency quoted the ruling as saying. The two lawsuits were filed in December 1999 against Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Co, which was then a state-owned firm. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
