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Tumour of the Pituitary Gland
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Also known as: pituitary adenoma · pituitary tumour · pituitary growth · adenoma of the pituitary · sella tumour · prolactinoma · pituitary proliferation · tumour of the pituitary gland · macroadenoma
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.
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It often begins insidiously. Headaches that have no explanation. Visual disturbances that come and go. Hormonal fluctuations that throw everything into disarray — sleep, mood, cycle, metabolism. And then the diagnosis: a tumour in the pituitary gland. A word that pulls the ground from under your feet, even though many of these tumours are benign and grow slowly.
The pituitary gland is tiny — barely larger than a pea — and yet it controls almost everything. It sits protected in a bony hollow at the base of the skull and governs the entire hormonal balance: growth, reproduction, stress response, thyroid, adrenal glands. Medicine calls it the master gland of the body. When something grows there that doesn't belong, the entire system falls out of rhythm.
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