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News items on 'Vocal Cord Problems'

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Dame Julie Andrews to have revolutionary operation on vocal chords

(Telegraph 22/10/2009)

Dame Julie could be back singing on stage within a year or two thanks to a revolutionary new treatment that could repair her shattered vocal chords. The British star of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins is expected to be one of the first patients in the world to have man-made tissue injected into her voice box. The Oscar winner has been unable to sing ever since surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules on her vocal cords in 1997.

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