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Benign Lung Tumours
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Also known as: benign lung tumours · lung nodules · pulmonary hamartoma · pulmonary round lesion · benign lung growth · benign nodule in the lung · lung spot · harmless lung tumour
Important note on this diagnosis — This text offers a psychological interpretation. With a cancer or tumour diagnosis, medical treatment belongs in the hands of physicians. BodySignal accompanies you in understanding the inner side of your symptom and complements medical care.
Your Body Is Speaking
It is not cancer. That is the first relief, and it is justified. But then something else remains: something is growing in your lung that does not belong there. Something that takes up space without destroying. Something that expands without collapsing. A nodule, a densification, a silent foreign body in the organ built for expansiveness and lightness.
Medically, benign lung tumours are clearly defined: tissue growths that do not invade surrounding tissue and do not form metastases. They are often discovered by chance — in a routine examination, an X-ray taken for some other reason. Many cause no symptoms at all. Others, as they grow, press on bronchi or blood vessels and make themselves known through coughing, shortness of breath, or a diffuse sense of tightness.
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