Doctors removed a malignant tumor from his throat two years ago.

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Consider something as obscure as Tuvan throat singing from Mongolia, where two notes are sounded at once.

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Tonsillectomy - cutting out the two lumps of lymphoid tissue found at either side of the back of the throat - is an operation that was described first over 3, 000 years ago.

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