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I have a painful moveable 5 cm stringy, hard ball of a lump, directly in the middle of neck under my adam's apple, possibly not cancer?
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Possibly not: There are several entities which could arise in the midline neck which are not cancerous. The most likely are called thyroglossal duct cyst and dermoid cyst. Each can get infected or acutely enlarge which would cause pain. I would recommend having this evaluated by your pcp or an ent.
Answered 8/6/2015
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