Laryngeal cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the larynx (voice box). The larynx helps you breathe, speak, and swallow. It houses your vocal cords, which create the sound of your voice.

“I didn’t believe I was decomposing, and I wasn’t ready to die,” the late actor said EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Val Kilmer, best known for movies such as 1986 ...

Cancerous vocal fold lesions could exert a subtle influence over the sound of a person's voice, which could help catch laryngeal cancer earlier than current methods. While the distinction is ...

A person's own voice might soon be a means of detecting whether they're suffering throat cancer, a new study says. Men with cancer of the larynx, or voice box, have distinct differences in their ...