Sonya Sotinsky recorded herself talking and reading books to preserve a critical element of her personality: her voice. After surgery for oral... When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have developed a flexible optical fiber that can be threaded through a medical endoscope and steered into the larynx to destroy hard-to-reach tumors ...

Surgery to remove laryngeal (throat) cancers can affect your voice, but some organ-sparing options can protect your ability to speak.

After an oral cancer diagnosis, Sonya Sotinsky had her tongue and larynx removed. She later found a way to deploy an AI-generated voice to express herself, complete with an authentic New Jersey accent ...

In a big leap for robotic surgery, doctors in Australia have pulled off a world-first procedure by pairing two advanced robotic systems to remove a throat tumor while preserving the patient’s ability ...

Sonya Sotinsky sits at Crane Cove Park in San Francisco on March 25. Sotinsky was diagnosed with Stage 4 tongue cancer and underwent surgery to remove her tongue, larynx and other structures. She then ...

When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the ...

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When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth, Sonya Sotinsky sat down with a microphone to record herself saying the ...