Cancer patient can speak again after rare voicebox transplant


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Post surgery: A grateful Kedian with Dr Lott. — Photos: Mayo Clinic News Network

A goundbreaking achievement in organ transplantation offers hope to thousands who have lost their ability to speak, swallow and breathe on their own due to diminished function or loss of their larynx.

A multidisciplinary team of doctors in Mayo Clinic, Arizona, United States, performed the third known total larynx transplant in the US.

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