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Leukemia
10 min read
Also known as: blood cancer · leukosis · white blood cell cancer · acute leukemia · chronic leukemia · ALL · AML · CLL · CML · childhood leukemia · leukemia disease
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
Your blood is your innermost transport system. It carries oxygen, nutrients, immune cells — it keeps you alive without you ever giving it a single conscious thought. In leukemia, this system falls out of balance: immature, non-functional white blood cells multiply without restraint and displace the healthy cells. Your body produces defence — but a defence that does not work. Mass instead of quality. Activity instead of effectiveness.
Medically, leukemia is a serious illness of the blood-forming system requiring intensive oncological treatment. The psychosomatic perspective replaces this treatment under no circumstances — but it poses a question that goes beyond the cellular: What is happening in a person whose life's defence is running on empty? Whose body produces feverishly, without what is produced fulfilling its purpose?
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