Cancer Information: Larynx Cancer Larynx cancer is a cancer that effects the larynx, or voice box, in people; it can also be called laryngeal cancer. The cancer occurs most frequently in people over the age of fifty-four and in black males. The larynx is approximately two inches long and is located below the nose passage way and above the trachea. Tumors can develop anywhere in the three parts of the larynx, the glottis, supraglottis, and …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 522 total…a process where drugs are injected into the bloodstream. Doctors are still unable to fully explain why one person gets larynx cancer and another does not. Although they cannot explain why a person gets cancer they have found some causes for it. People who smoke, smoke and drink, and work with asbestos have a much greater risk in getting laryngeal cancer. People who stop smoking and drinking greatly reduce there risk in getting the cancer.