(AP) -- Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ ...

Smoking doesn't just cause lung cancer. It's also a major risk factor for cancers of the trachea, which is the main air passageway (also called the windpipe), and the larynx (the voice box). Laryngeal ...

(CBS) In only the second operation of its kind, a Baltimore man has received an artificial windpipe made from stem cells to replace one destroyed by cancer. Christopher Lyles, 30, had tracheal cancer ...

While transplants successful, experts say technique still not a proven therapy. Aug. 2, 2010— -- Doctors in Italy announced they have used patients' own stem cells to grow trachea tissue that led ...

A team of doctors have replaced the cancer affected windpipe of a patient with an organ made in a lab. This is a medical breakthrough for regenerative medicine. The patient no longer has cancer and is ...

For the first time, a patient has been successfully transplanted with an artificial trachea, created from scratch in a lab. The procedure required the coordinated efforts of scientific teams in London ...

ROME - Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea to regenerate tissue and create an organ ...

A Baltimore man became only the second patient to receive a completely synthetic trachea, to replace one ravaged by cancer. Swedish surgeons, led by Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, director of the Advanced ...

Next week, thousands of people will pack the streets of Tampa for Miles for Moffitt. It's Moffitt Cancer Center’s largest fundraiser of the year, and as the event marks its 20th anniversary, one first ...

Trachea cancer patient receives new trachea grown from own stem cells. Jan. 13, 2012— -- Christopher Lyles, 30, of Abingdon, Md, exhausted the limited treatment options available in the U.S. for ...

Rapid Progression of Tracheoesophageal Fistula Caused by Immunotherapy Administered after Tracheal Stent Placement. Systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological literature evaluating the ...