Yet, he said, " One of the first candidates was a gentleman who had been 10 years without his larynx following cancer and, as president of the Lost Voice Club, was telling people how easy it is to live after having a laryngectomy . " ( MORE ) nn
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Lightwriters are used by many people with acquired speech loss following laryngectomy, tracheostomy, stroke, head injury, or with progressive neurological diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease ( also known as Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS ), Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis ( MS ) or Huntington's Chorea.
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An early adopter of the " white coat ( as shown in Seligmann's c . 1890 painting ), Billroth was directly responsible for a number of landmarks in surgery, including the first esophagectomy ( 1871 ), the first laryngectomy ( 1873 ), and most famously, the first successful gastrectomy ( 1881 ) for gastric cancer, after many ill-fated attempts.
