A tracheostomy tube helps you breathe after tracheotomy surgery, which creates a stoma (an opening) in your neck. A laryngectomy tube keeps a stoma open during healing. Tracheotomy and laryngectomy ...

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 ...

Organ loss due to late-stage cancer is a heavy burden on both the patient and the health care system. Total laryngectomy in patients with advanced laryngeal or hypopharyngeal carcinoma is lifesaving, ...

Laryngectomy is a surgical procedure performed to remove the entire larynx or parts of it under general anesthesia. Surgical voice restoration procedures are performed on patients undergoing total ...

Losing your voice if you have had your larynx completely removed (a total laryngectomy) is likely to be a shock in the beginning. Members of your healthcare team will support you during this time.

If you want to learn about surgeries to treat throat cancer and remove tumors, this is a place to start. We’ll explain types of throat cancer surgeries and reconstruction after surgery. Surgery is the ...

Before surgery, you discuss the different ways you can use to communicate with your doctor and speech and language therapist. A voice prosthesis, or tracheo oesophageal puncture (TEP) is a common type ...

After months of misdiagnoses, Andrea No learned she had stage 4 cancer when a tumor nearly closed her airway, and she’s now ...

Laryngectomy is a procedure to remove a part of, or all of, the larynx. A person may need this procedure to remove tumors from the larynx. A surgeon may perform a partial laryngectomy and remove part ...

When a person is diagnosed with cancer in their voice box, communicating after it has to be removed can be a challenging task. Fortunately thank to special procedures and technology at Spectrum Health ...