Your Signal
Tongue Cancer
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Also known as: tongue carcinoma · Carcinoma linguae · tongue neoplasia · floor-of-mouth carcinoma · malignant tongue tumour · squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue · tongue tumour · cancer of the tongue
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
The tongue is the most mobile organ in your body. It tastes, it shapes words, it swallows, it kisses. It is the instrument with which you express yourself into the world — and with which you take the world in. When a tumour grows on this tongue, it does not grow in just any place. It grows at the intersection between you and life.
Oncology describes risk factors: smoking, alcohol, HPV infection, chronic irritation of the oral mucosa. These are relevant findings. But the question BodySignal asks goes deeper: what happens in a person whose organ of expression — the tool with which they speak, taste, and touch — is destroyed from within? What no longer wants to be said? Or more precisely: what should have been said long ago, and was swallowed for so long that it sought another way out as a growth?
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