On the middle of August 2007, new leader has elected . As democratic as possible, they got four names . As the results: Mr Zaenal!!! Congratulations
Mr Zaenal, the new president of Indonesian Laryngectomees Association
Electromechanical Speech
Cancer of the larynx accounts for about 1.2 per cent of new cancers in this
Symptoms
Cancer of the larynx develops as aniregularity on the surface of the vocal cord. The causs the normal vibrator of the vocal cord to be disruted so speech sounds rough or hoarse. Anybody who complains of hoarse voice lasting longer than a month should be reffered to an ENT (ear, nose, and throat) surgeon for examination.
An endoscopic examination is often performed , to give an early indication of the presence of cancerous. If the ENT surgeons suspects that a tumour is present, a biopsy will taken.
If the ENT surgeon suspects that a tumour is present, a biopsy will taken.
Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States. The number of deaths per year from smoking exceeds the number of deaths per year from all accidents, suicides, drug use, homicides and AIDS combined. An estimated 45 million U.S. adults are smokers, and more than a third of all U.S. high school students smoke cigarettes.
Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths (1). Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women (3). Smoking is also responsible for most cancers of the larynx, oral cavity and pharynx, esophagus, and bladder. In addition, it is a cause of kidney, pancreatic, cervical, and stomach cancers (2, 4), as well as acute myeloid leukemia (2).
The health risks caused by cigarette smoking are not limited to smokers. Exposure to secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), significantly increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease in nonsmokers, as well as several respiratory illnesses in young children (5). (Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke that is released from the end of a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Science’s National Toxicology Program, and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have all classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen—a category reserved for agents for which there is sufficient scientific evidence that they cause cancer (5, 6, 7). The U.S. EPA has estimated that exposure to secondhand smoke causes about 3,000 lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers and is responsible for up to 300,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infections in children up to 18 months of age in the United States each year (5). For additional information on ETS, see the NCI fact sheet Environmental Tobacco Smoke, which can be found at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS on the Internet.
Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 chemical agents, including over 60 carcinogens (8). In addition, many of these substances, such as carbon monoxide, tar, arsenic, and lead, are poisonous and toxic to the human body. Nicotine is a drug that is naturally present in the tobacco plant and is primarily responsible for a person’s addiction to tobacco products, including cigarettes. During smoking, nicotine is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream and travels to the brain in a matter of seconds. Nicotine causes addiction to cigarettes and other tobacco products that is similar to the addiction produced by using heroin and cocaine (9).
Smoking harms nearly every major organ of the body (2). The risk of developing smoking-related diseases, such as lung and other cancers, heart disease, stroke, and respiratory illnesses, increases with total lifetime exposure to cigarette smoke (7). This includes the number of cigarettes a person smokes each day, the intensity of smoking (i.e., the size and frequency of puffs), the age at which smoking began, the number of years a person has smoked, and a smoker’s secondhand smoke exposure.
Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits for men and women of all ages. Quitting smoking decreases the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease. The earlier a person quits, the greater the health benefit. For example, research has shown that people who quit before age 50 reduce their risk of dying in the next 15 years by half compared with those who continue to smoke (3). Smoking low-yield cigarettes, as compared to cigarettes with higher tar and nicotine, provides no clear benefit to health (2). For additional information on quitting smoking, see the NCI fact sheet Questions and Answers About Smoking Cessation, which can be found at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/cessation on the Internet.
For help with quitting smoking, call NCI’s smoking cessation quitline at 1–877–44U–QUIT or visit NCI’s smoking cessation Web site at http://www.smokefree.gov on the Internet.
On top is a picture of severe cancer of the larynx, which has surfaced on his neck and spread to his lymph glands. Most laryngeal cancers begin near the vocal cords, causing hoarseness or other changes in the voice.
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Mr Karoon said:
Never give in life
After 2 -3 days of surgical larynx operation, they will feel painful, weary and exhausted. It is the time of excruciating while they cough, be sucked the phlegm.
After one week the patient can stand up walk and eat . the physical strength will soon regain.
Reading books , and taking a rest.
Start recovery from illness
While staying for convalescence at the hospitals, they should try to walk around the bed, the building, enjoy eating food and drink a lot of water.
Immediate family
Families are like beautiful and aromatic flowers that take care of patients beside their bed.
Never stay away from the patient.
They send through waves to laryngectomees to regain energy.
Keep off bad temper
Almost all the laryngectomees always have short have short temper because of the lost of voice. They tend to enrage and ruin the belongings and let off teir emotion against their families.
Being calm and continue rehabilitation.
Never feel stress, never become discouraged, will prolong life.
Monitor the cough
In case having tube in stoma, they should hold at the edge of the tubes with the fingers before coughing.
If the tube rub against the bronchial while coughing, it will only trgger more coughing that will worsen the health.
Zainudin, number 4 from left side, diagnosed at 21 years old. Now he is 34 year old, married 5 years ago, and had a daughter.
