SUZANNE CALLANDER reports on the latest advances in the development of an artificial larynx that aims to offer laryngeal cancer patients a better quality of life following a laryngectomy.
According to figures provided by Cancer Research UK, 150,000 new cases of laryngeal cancer were diagnosed worldwide, including 28,000 in Europe in 2008.
Laryngeal cancer accounts for 1% of all new cases of cancer in males, and 0.3% in females.1-4 In 2010, there were 2,337 new cases of laryngeal cancer in the UK – 83% in men and 17% in women.1-4 The Cancer Atlas for the UK and Ireland, which analysed laryngeal cancer incidence rates at local authority and health board level in the period 1991-2000 also showed evidence of a northsouth divide across the UK – with the highest incidence rates in Scotland and the urban areas of the north and midlands of England, and the lowest rates in the south and east of England.5
Laryngeal cancer incidence has also been found to relate to age, with the highest rates being in older men and women. In the UK between 2008 and 2010, an average of 56% of cases were diagnosed in men and women aged 65 years and over, and almost 74% were diagnosed in those aged 60 and over.1-4
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