Kaposi's Sarcoma

It often begins inconspicuously: dark, red-violet patches on the skin that look like bruises that won't fade. Sometimes flat, sometimes raised, sometimes painless, sometimes pressure-sensitive. Kaposi's sarcoma arises in the blood vessels of the skin — there, where life itself flows. The cells that guide your blood through the body begin to multiply without restraint, as if something is pressing from within to the outside that can find no ordered path.

Oncology describes a tumour arising from the endothelial cells of blood vessels. And that is what it is — on the cellular level. But the question BodySignal asks lies deeper: What is happening in your inner life that the current which nourishes you turns against its own walls? What presses toward the surface with such force that it deforms the body in its most sensitive network — the vessels that connect everything?