Rare voice box transplant helped a cancer patient speak again, part of a pioneering study
LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
Updated
1 of 4
Marty Kedian poses for a photo at Mayo Clinic’s Head and Neck Regenerative Medicine Laboratory on June 12 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. David Lott, Mayo Clinic’s chair of head and neck surgery, lifts the donor organ out of a perfusion container at Mayo Clinic Hospital on Feb. 29 in Phoenix.
Mayo Clinic
Dr. Girish Mour, left, medical director of Mayo Clinic's Larynx and Trachea Transplant Program, and Dr. David Lott meet with Marty Kedian on March 8, one week after his transplant surgery in Phoenix.
Mayo Clinic
Marty Kedian greets his dog, Baxter, March 16 on his first trip outside the Mayo Clinic Hospital after his surgery in Phoenix.
WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.
Dr. David Lott, Mayo Clinic’s chair of head and neck surgery, lifts the donor organ out of a perfusion container at Mayo Clinic Hospital on Feb. 29 in Phoenix.
Dr. Girish Mour, left, medical director of Mayo Clinic's Larynx and Trachea Transplant Program, and Dr. David Lott meet with Marty Kedian on March 8, one week after his transplant surgery in Phoenix.
