People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer. Drinking too much alcohol over a long time also increases risk. Symptoms of throat cancer include any of the following:

Abnormal (high-pitched) breathing sounds
Cough
Coughing up blood
Difficulty swallowing
Hoarseness that does not get better in 3 to 4 weeks
Neck or ear pain
Sore throat that does not get better in 2 to 3 weeks, even with antibiotics
Swelling or lumps in the neck
Weight loss not due to dieting

When the tumour is small, either surgery or radiation therapy alone can be used to remove the tumour.
When the tumour is larger or has spread to lymph nodes in the neck, a combination of radiation and chemotherapy is often used to save the voice box (vocal cords). If this is not possible, the voice box is removed via a laryngectomy.

As well as incidence, data can be filtered by the following attributes :

• Cachexia
• Histopathology Non-SCC
• Histopathology SCC Stage
• Larynx location Glottis
• Larynx location Laryngeal cartilage
• Larynx location Larynx NOS
• Larynx location Overlapping lesion of larynx
• Larynx location Subglottis
• Larynx location Supraglottis
• Stage

Further sub sets are available within the data. Please contact us for more information.