throat cancer
Tumor in gullet
Throat cancer is cancer affecting the pharynx, larynx, or surrounding tissues.
The term covers several distinct malignancies grouped by location: He was diagnosed with throat cancer after months of hoarseness.
Risk factors include smoking, heavy alcohol use, and HPV infection.
Treatment depends on stage and location but typically involves surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.
- hoarsenessRough, scratchy voice quality
- tonsilsThroat's lymphoid tissue
- HPVCommon sexually transmitted virus
- tobacco useConsuming nicotine through inhalation
- tracheostomySurgically created airway opening
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- Throat Problemstonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, hoarseness, swollen tonsils
- smoking harmsemphysema, COPD, smoker's cough, nicotine addiction, chronic bronchitis
- throatpharynx, larynx, esophagus, tonsils, epiglottis
- ENT conditionsear infection, tinnitus, sinusitis, hearing loss, tonsillitis
- tumorstumor, benign tumor, malignant tumor, carcinoma, adenocarcinoma
- head and neck cancer
throat cancerbenign tumor
Harmless abnormal growth
sore throat · laryngitis · tonsillitis · pharyngitis · strep throat
throat cancercolon cancer
Malignant growth in large intestine
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