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Should I Be Concerned About A Lump Under The Skin?

I just recently was intimate with my husband. He bit and hickeyed the right side of my neck. I have this under the skin small moveable ball that s there when I feel the hickey. The hickeys located under the ear down the middle of y neck a little over to the right. Should I be concerned about cancer?
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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HI,Dear, Thanks for the query from you for the small moveable lump under skin at the site of the hickey.1-I feel concerned that you are serious about the possiblity of the cancerous lump on the right of your neck below ear.?2- In my opinion dear,the lump under the skin at the hickey 2-a-might be a fibrosed hematoma of the old-hickey you got, 2-b- or it may be the small lymph node-enlarged /discrete, which you incidently found ,while feeling the hickey site.So dont worry about it being the cancer.4-I would advise you to keep a watch on that lump on the right of your neck , and if it increases in size ,then you should consult the ER-surgeon ,for the needful treatment.5-Hope this would solve your worry about lump under the skin on the rt of your neck 6-Wellcome to HCM for any more query.
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Should I Be Concerned About A Lump Under The Skin?

HI,Dear, Thanks for the query from you for the small moveable lump under skin at the site of the hickey.1-I feel concerned that you are serious about the possiblity of the cancerous lump on the right of your neck below ear.?2- In my opinion dear,the lump under the skin at the hickey 2-a-might be a fibrosed hematoma of the old-hickey you got, 2-b- or it may be the small lymph node-enlarged /discrete, which you incidently found ,while feeling the hickey site.So dont worry about it being the cancer.4-I would advise you to keep a watch on that lump on the right of your neck , and if it increases in size ,then you should consult the ER-surgeon ,for the needful treatment.5-Hope this would solve your worry about lump under the skin on the rt of your neck 6-Wellcome to HCM for any more query.