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I have a hard, moveable, painless lump on the left side of my neck, and it changes size. should i be concerned about cancer?
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May be cyst: Very few painless hard lumps in neck change size. One type of lesion can be an inflammatory node which as the inflammation resolves at the primary site gets smaller. The other is a thyroglossal duct cyst which in the truest sense is a cyst that may occasionally change size as a remnant of the descending thyroid gland
Answered 11/27/2017
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Unlikely cancer: If "changes size" means it gets smaller and larger then this is unlikely cancer. If a painless lump continues to get larger then that is concerning. If you are concerned, please have this looked at.
Answered 3/21/2017
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