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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Today, you’ll learn about the first ever total larynx transplant that gave one cancer patient his voice back, a new way to conduct gold-standard sleep studies without all the wires, and how a new discovery is changing the way scientists understand the mammalian brain.
Larynx Transplant
Sleep Studies
Mammal Brains
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0:47.6 | happier here. I am Cali. Today you'll learn about the first ever total |
0:52.0 | larynx transplant that gave one cancer |
0:54.6 | patient his voice back a new way to conduct gold standard sleep studies without all |
0:59.8 | the wires and how a new discovery is changing the way scientists understand the mammalian brain. |
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1:08.0 | Every year, nearly 185,000 new cases of laryngeal cancer will be reported around the globe, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. |
1:18.0 | And for those who survive, treatment can be brutally life-altering. |
1:22.0 | As we all know, chemotherapy and radiation therapy have their |
1:25.1 | own drawbacks, but surgery on the larynx can be devastating, leading to trouble swallowing |
1:30.5 | food, breathing air, and the total loss of one's voice. |
1:34.0 | Clearly, none of that is something you'd wish on anyone. |
1:38.0 | But the loss of your voice would be especially difficult, I feel. |
1:40.0 | It can lead to all sorts of other knock-on effects from depression to social isolation. |
1:45.8 | I can't even imagine. |
1:47.6 | Well, doctors at the Mayo Clinic have achieved a potential breakthrough that could one day change the lives of tens of thousands of people. |
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