What is the awareness ribbon color for Laryngeal cancer?

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I've been trying to find the awareness ribbon color for Laryngeal Cancer and have been unable to. I know that light purple tends to be the general Cancer awareness ribbon, but I am looking specifically for Laryngeal Cancer.
The only thing I could find was esophageal cancer, sorry. It's periwinkle.  (+ info)

What is the connection between malignant neoplasms and crabs?

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The more common term for malignant neoplasms, cancer, is Latin for crab, and the word "carcinogen," meaning a cancer-causing agent, comes from the Greek word for crab, "karkinos." What is the connection between these two seemingly unrelated things?
Cancer, both the disease and the astronomical constellation, derive from the Latin cancer or cancrum, meaning crab. The astrological sign, of course, is said to resemble a crab and the disease was so named by the ancient Greek physician Galen (129-200 A.D.) who noted the similarity between a certain type of tumor with a crab as well—the swollen veins around the tumor resembling the legs of a crab.

Old English adopted cancer directly from Latin and used it for a variety of spreading sores and ulcers. This early sense survives in the modern word canker. From c.1000 in a manuscript called Læce Boc (Leech Book), collected in Oswald Cockayne’s Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, Vol. II, 1865:

Gemeng wið þam dustum, clæm on ðone cancer.
(Mix with the dust, smear on the cancer.)

And from Wyclif’s 2 Timothy, 1382:

The word of hem crepith as a kankir

The word was being applied specifically to the disease we today call cancer by the beginning of the 17th century. From Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s Historie of the World:

Cancer is a swelling or sore comming of melancholy bloud, about which the veins appeare of a blacke or swert colour, spread in manner of a Creifish clees.

The astronomical sense of cancer is from the Latin name for the constellation of the crab. The name was known to the Anglo-Saxons, but only as a Latin name and was not assimilated into English until the Middle English period. It appears in Ælfric’s De Temporibus Anni, written c.993, in a list of the constellations of the Zodiac:

Feorða • Cancer • þæt is Crabba
(Fourth, Cancer, that is the crab.)

The Anglicized name appears c.1391 in Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe:

In this heved of cancer is the grettist declinacioun northward of the sonne...this signe of cancre is clepid the tropik of Somer.
(At this first point (head) of cancer is the greatest declination northward of the sun…this sign of cancer is named the tropic of summer.)

(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)  (+ info)

What store here in the Philippines can we purchase a device called laryngeal microphone?

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Laryngeal microphone is a device used to produce a voice, for a person who undergone tracheostomy, where a hole was made in a patient, just below the neckline for breathing purposes
I would think the doctor could recommend a place to buy it.  (+ info)

why do laryngeal cancer patients clear their throat so much?

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i mean obviously they feel a lump in their throat

but is clearing your throat invouluntary? what i mean is, they know that by clearing their throat that the lump isnt going anywhere, but they continue to do it anyway?

my grandfather has laryngeal cancer, he always keeps his mouth moist and what not, but is always clearing his throat and spitting.
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What is the basis of differing actions of antineoplastic agents on different tissue/neoplasms?

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What is the basis for differing tissue- and neoplasm-specificites of antieoplastic chemotherapeutic agents? This doubt arose because considering what the pharmacokinetics of these drugs are it remains to be answered as to why a certain agent would act only in a particular tissue or neoplasm when the mechanisms they employ are so similar, e.g., various alkylating agents in spite having same action act of different tumors with differing degrees of effectiveness. Hope someone answers the question specifically. Useful links to free-text articles would also be highly appreciated. Bye. TC.
If you have thoughts on this subject, you ought to have the initiative to research it yourself.  (+ info)

I have a pretty good herbal challenge, How do you treat laryngeal paralysis with herbal remedies?

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I have searched online and in my many books. I have found nothing but would like a few ideas. If you have any clue at all let me know.
Please don't waste your time putting an answer that is just ridicule. It's unnecessary. Most of the time where there is no cure in modern medicine, there is in herbal. You can judge all you want but you don't know until you study it so please only positive helpful answers.
CoQ10 helps regulate electrical synapses in the body. It couldn't hurt in any type of paralysis in the body. I take it to help regulate my heart rhythm, and it does help more than many of the anti-arrhythmics they have given me over the years.

Good luck. I pray you recover quickly.  (+ info)

Is there any treatment for POSTERIOR LARYNGEAL EDEMA due to chemical exposure?

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Surgery, or any medications that could help?
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Chlorophyll helps the body to heal.
Some of the best sources are green
sprouts of all kinds (especially
sunflower and mustard) and wheat
grass juice.

I copied the following from a website and
mistakenly closed it out before getting the
address of the site: "I worked as a herbalist
for years and I remember the day a lady
came into the office to tell me the story that
another herbalist had healed her of Edema,
he told her to go to the woods and cut a
grape vine, which I believe to be those long
vines hanging off the trees in the woods, but
I am not sure myself. anyway, he told her to
start a fire with a piece of tin on top and put
the vines on it until they turned to ashes and
take 1 tsp in water and she would never have
this problem again.... Please know I knew
this lady was truthful but even she couldn't
remember the amount so I am unsure of the
safety..."

The following is from the site, http://www.
home-remedies-for-you.com/remedy/
Edema.html

"Mustard oil is an effective home remedy
for edema. Take some warm mustard oil
and rub it on the affected areas. Soak 2
teaspoons of mustard seeds in water and
apply the solution to the affected areas.
Apple cider vinegar helps to remove excess
fluid in the body cells and cavities."

Good luck. ♥
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What is the function of laryngeal cartilage?

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Just happen to need help with some anatomy homework. This one is kicking my butt x]
The same as the bronchial cartilage. To provide rigidity for an open airway. But it is especially important in the larynx because there are moving parts, the vocal cords. The muscles that control the cords are attached to the cartilage so they need the rigid structure.
God bless.  (+ info)

Who is most at risk for laryngeal cancer?

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What ethnicity?
Men or women?
Children or adults?
Why are they most at risk?
Smoking is the most important risk factor for laryngeal cancer. Death from laryngeal cancer is 20 times more likely for heaviest smokers than for nonsmokers.[1] Heavy chronic consumption of alcohol, particularly alcoholic spirits, is also significant. When combined, these two factors appear to have a synergistic effect. Some other quoted risk factors are likely, in part, to be related to prolonged alcohol and tobacco consumption. These include low socioeconomic status, male sex, and age greater than 55 years.

People with a history of head and neck cancer are known to be at higher risk (about 25%) of developing a second cancer of the head, neck, or lung. This is mainly because in a significant proportion of these patients, the aerodigestive tract and lung epithelium have been exposed chronically to the carcinogenic effects of alcohol and tobacco. In this situation, a field change effect may occur, where the epithelial tissues start to become diffusely dysplastic with a reduced threshold for malignant change. This risk may be reduced by quitting alcohol and tobacco.  (+ info)

Why is partial laryngeal nerve lesion more dangerous than complete lesion?

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I am guess if partial, you knock out the only abductor (lateral posterior cricoarytenoid) but some of the adductors are still functioning ie. you are doing a great job shutting that airway off.

Where as complete lesion you knock every one out and so it's just a floppy, boycotted rima epiglottidis.

But, I am just making all this up. Please criticise and comment. Thank you.
you are guessing right, a partial lesion of the recurrent laryngeal nerve results in greater degree of paralysis of the abductor muscle than the adductor, so the affected vocal cord assumes the adducted midline position ( the reason behind this is not explained satisfactorily, it is assumed that the abductor muscle receives more nerves so a partial lesion would result in more damage to nerve fibers supplying the abductors). the partial lesion is most dangerous if it occurs bilaterally, so both vocal cords assume the midline position causing acute dyspnea & stridor.

a complete lesion of the nerve would result in vocal cord assuming a position midway between abduction & adduction, so even if the lesion is bilateral the airway is still patent ( only partially closed) but speech is lost.

so it's a kind of paradox, a complete lesion will result in partial closure, however, a partial lesion would result in complete closure of air way ( assuming it's bilateral).

i hope i didn't confuse you  (+ info)

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