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Thyroid Cancer
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Also known as: thyroid carcinoma · papillary thyroid carcinoma · follicular thyroid carcinoma · medullary thyroid carcinoma · anaplastic thyroid carcinoma · thyroidea carcinoma · cancer of the thyroid · malignant thyroid tumour · thyroid carcinoma · malignant thyroid 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
At some point there is this finding that brings everything to a standstill. A nodule that is not a harmless nodule. A change in a small, butterfly-shaped organ at the throat that most people do not even notice as long as it quietly does its work — and that is now suddenly at the centre. Thyroid cancer. Words that for the moment crowd out all other words.
The thyroid is the pacemaker organ of your metabolism. It determines how fast your cells work, how warm you are, how much energy is available to you, how awake you feel. It sits directly beneath the larynx — at the threshold between head and body, between thinking and feeling, between what you say and what you swallow. When something proliferates at exactly that place, it is worth asking: what has remained unresolved for so long at exactly this location, in exactly this organ, that the body decided to make it visible?
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