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25 male.have 3mm lump inside of lower lip for almost 3 years. hasn't really grown. if it was cancer would it have grown by now/spread to lymph nodes?

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Dr. Lewis Hassell answered

Oral lump: Highly unlikely to be cancer with this time course. Several benign things can occur and persist, such as a "bite fibroma"- a scar-like post-traumatic lesion, a mucocele- cyst of a minor salivary duct, and so forth.

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Answered 4/11/2015

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A member asked:

25 male.have 3mm lump inside of lower lip for almost 3 years. hasn't really grown. if it was cancer would it have grown by now/spread to lymph nodes?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Lewis Hassell answered

Dr Veres and 2 doctors agreed

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