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Massachusetts man regains voice, complete with Boston accent, after rare larynx transplant

The Mayo Clinic replaced Marty Kedian's larynx, or voice box, to remove a rare form of laryngeal cancer. Kedian says he feels like he got his life back.

The Mayo Clinic replaced Marty Kedian's larynx, or voice box, to remove a rare form of laryngeal cancer called chondrosarcoma. "The larynx is really part of a unit, or I like to say, a true biomechanical structure where it is alive," Dr. David Lott, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at The Mayo Clinic in Arizona, told USA TODAY on Wednesday. Lott said that being able to operate on a cancer patient was an, "important step in advancing laryngeal transplant science, because we can watch it in his natural environment without putting him at additional risk."

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