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A member asked:

My friend has stage 4 liver cancer that has spread once already,and has a small black bump on his tongue that seemed to pop up overnight. ?

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Dr. Hushang Haghighat answered

Metastasis: most likely is metastatic he should follow up with his doctor

Answered 12/13/2014

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Small BumpS or lumps in mouth that swells with fluid then return to normal size as before in my mouth its about 4 of them .No pain they are moveable.What condition can cause this all I see is cancer.What could cause this?they are very hard

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I have small series of 5 small indents that are in a line in the back right side of the roof of my mouth behind a hard bump. Abscess? Cancer? What?

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There's a small bump on the roof of my mouth that gets hard/soft during the day. Is it salivary gland cancer? a lymph node? I'm a 20 y/o male.

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Small hard bump on roof of mouth that gets softer and harder as day goes on. Have had it for three months, not painful more so annoying. Mouth cancer?

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I'm having health anxiety over this bump on the roof of my mouth. I've seen an oral surgeon, he said its too small to be cancer. Still worried. Help.

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