Her voice was quiet. But even the most boisterous students in the Locke High School auditorium fell silent to hear Pauline Owens. “You are about to learn an important lesson,” she began. It was a 25th ...

The report outlines how inhaling tobacco smoke affects the delicate tissues of the larynx, commonly known as the voice box. Repeated exposure to the toxins in cigarette smoke leads to irritation, ...

Cancer of the voice box or larynx is an important public health burden. In 2021, there were an estimated 1.1 million cases of laryngeal cancer worldwide, and approximately 100,000 people died from it.

Robert Mwangi is a cancer survivor. He lost his voice box in a surgery meant to treat cancer of the larynx in 2010 and now uses an electronic voice box to speak. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University speech scientist says those who resolve to quit smoking in 2021 could reduce the damage being done to their voice. Preeti Sivasankar, a professor and head of ...