And this passage right here where they connect is called the pharynx.

So behind your air pipe, you have your esophagus.

The esophagus is the pipe for food.

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They gave us endotracheal aspirate you know, a little fluid from the throat, from this tube that they got down there and they gave us this.

Esophagus is where your food goes down.

They call it The Deguello, the cutthroat song.

My eldest had strep throat and the youngest, measles.

Stage IVB T4 The tumor is affecting areas outside of the hypopharynx.

He died of pharyngeal cancer on 21 June 1997.

So this is where we want our food to go down the esophagus.

Treatments Treatment of hypopharyngeal cancer depends on the prognosis (chance of recovery), age, stage, and general health of the patient.

So anyway, you have your oxygen coming in through your mouth or your nose, through the pharynx it could fill your stomach.

Stage I (1)T1 the tumor is less than 2 cm across and is limited to one area in the hypopharynx.

The air goes in through either your nasal cavity or your oral cavity and then comes back through your pharynx and then the pharynx splits into two pipes.

ORT4 the tumor is affecting different areas outside of the hypopharynx, starting with the throat and moving towards the spine and chest cavity.

Non infectious Pharyngitis may also be caused by mechanical, chemical or thermal irritation, for example cold air or acid reflux.

Because hypopharyngeal cancer is often advanced at the time of diagnosis, treatment also depends on the overall goal.

It enters our body through the nose and mouth, moves down into the pharynx, trachea and bronchial tubes, and ultimately reaches the alveoli air sacs in the lungs.

Because of this, Hypopharyngeal Cancer is difficult to catch in its earliest stages and has one of the highest mortality rates of any head and neck cancer.

In 2008, there were 22,900 cases of oral cavity cancer, 12,250 cases of laryngeal cancer, and 12,410 cases of pharyngeal cancer in the United States.

Stage II (2)T2 the tumor has grown to affect more than one area of the hypopharynx and is between 2 and 4 centimeters with no lymph node involvement and no metastasis.

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Stage IVC (end stage)The cancer could be anything from T1 to T4, N1 to N4, but the major difference is that the cancer has metastasized (M1) to other organs away from the hypopharynx.