A person's own voice might soon be a means of detecting whether they're suffering throat cancer, a new study says.
Men with cancer of the larynx, or voice box, have distinct differences in their voices that could be detected with trained artificial intelligence, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Digital Health.
These differences are caused by potentially cancerous lesions that have cropped up in a person's vocal folds -- the two bands of muscle tissue in the larynx that produce sound, also known as vocal cords.
"We could use vocal biomarkers to distinguish voices from patients with vocal fold lesions from those without such lesions," lead researcher Dr. Phillip Jenkins, a postdoctoral fellow in clinical informatics at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, said in a news release.
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