A member asked:

Left side on lower ribs have small and large fatty type lumps. moveable. pain also in area that has lightened up. 21f. overweight. cancerous??

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Dr. Julie Abbott answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Very likely not: Benign soft tissue, including fatty, lumps or tumors are thought to occur 10 times more frequently than cancerous growths. If a lump is greater than 2 inches in size, it has a greater risk of being cancerous. Being tender or painful is actually more often associated with being benign (possibly an infectious abscess); benign lumps tend to grow more slowly. Watch for changes and seek eval if changes

Answered 12/14/2018

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