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A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and replaced it with a donated one. Marty Kedian is only the third person in the US to have a total larynx transplant. Surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, U.S. offered Kedian the transplant as part of a new clinical trial aimed at opening the potentially life-changing operation to more patients. Kedian, 59, underwent more than a dozen surgeries after he was diagnosed with a rare laryngeal cartilage cancer a decade ago. He eventually needed a trach tube to help him breathe and swallow but wouldn't let doctors remove his entire larynx because he wanted to read bedtime stories to his granddaughter with his own voice.
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