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Laryngeal cancer begins from the infection of the larynx. This is the passageway of both air and food during breathing and swallowing. Anyone who is exposed to asbestos-filled air would run the risk of taking in asbestos fiber which might be trapped in the larynx and the succeeding passages of the air or the food. Unfortunately, there is no way to remove the asbestos fiber from the body of the victim ones it entered. Thus, it only requires time to pass before one gets very sick.
Asbestos kills some thousands of lives every year. Most of which have worked in mines, shipyards, factories, and construction sites and many comes from people who have family embers working in these industries. Every year, however, there are around 10,000 people diagnosed of laryngeal cancer and almost half of them die due to the cancer. Because laryngeal cancer and asbestos are considered as occupational diseases, men are likely to develop the disease than that of women since nearly all occupations using asbestos are dominated by men.
The average age of individuals diagnosed of laryngeal cancer is somewhere around 50 years old to 70 years old and above. This further establishes the relationship between asbestos and laryngeal cancer since both require nearly the same period of latency. Period of latency, by the way, is the length of time for the full maturation of the disease. Also, it had been noted that asbestos could also increase the risk of developing lung cancer alongside the more dominating ill effects of smoking. 
Further, other asbestos diseases and larynx cancer have the same symptoms such as hoarseness of the voice, lumps in the affected areas due to tumors, observed development of cancerous cells, ear pain, difficulty of swallowing and breathing, persistent coughing and sore throat.
Several treatment options for laryngeal cancer and asbestos are chemotherapy for more aggravated diseases, radiation therapy that removes immature cancer cells and small tumors, surgery for both small and large tumors, combination of CAMS or Complementary and Alternative Medicines, and life modification practices.
To know more of your options for treatment, because sadly there are no cures to any asbestos-related diseases yet, it is wisest to seek more comprehensive medical advice. Seek for a specialist asbestos or laryngeal cancer to know more about your disease. This way, you will be able to make more learned ways towards lessening the gravity of suffering from laryngeal cancer and asbestos.
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