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Laryngeal Cancer
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Also known as: laryngeal carcinoma · laryngeal tumour · cancer of the larynx · malignant laryngeal tumour · vocal cord cancer · laryngeal Ca · malignant larynx tumour · cancer of the vocal apparatus · laryngeal malignancy · carcinoma of the larynx
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
First it is only the voice. It becomes hoarse, congested, fragile — as though something has been drawn over it that will not shake off. You clear your throat more often. Swallowing becomes harder. At some point a lump appears at the neck, or an examination brings to light what the voice has long been announcing: a tumour, there where your word is born. Precisely at the place where air transforms into speech.
Medicine sees causes in smoking, alcohol, chronic irritation. All of this is real — and it deserves to be taken seriously. But the question BodySignal asks begins one level deeper: why did exactly this place in your body begin to grow against itself? Why there, where your voice lives? Why at the very spot where a person brings their innermost self outward?
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