Is this cancer?

Question

I had a hard lump on the right side of my neck and is pretty big. Actually this lump had been with me for about a month plus. I had consult 3 doctors but 2 of them just tell me is ok until I consult the 3rd doctor and she send me to see the specialist immediately. I'm just afraid that is cancerous. May anyone tell me whether this is cancerous???

Answer 1

It's hard to know if it is cancer or not until it has been taken out and put on the slide for the histopathology people to see.

Mostly, lymph nodes from viruses and hard lumps from bruising will settle over the course of a month.

If it is still there and not settlng down, I would agree with the 3rd doctor and get a biopsy done. That is to say that it needs to be cut out and sent to the lab. You can tell from that.

I can understand that you feel apprehensive about the whole thing - particularly what it would feel like to be told you have cancer. On the other hand, if you had cancer and you didn't know about it you wouldn't do anything about it and either you would be told later (much later) or maybe your relatives would be the ones hearing about it, if you know what I mean.

If you get the test done, either it's cancer - you can do something about it - or it isn't cancer and you can rest easy.

Answer 2

It could be a lymph node going spastic, they do that some times, but in case - Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer researcher came out with a paper saying that the best cancer and infection fighter as yet found was Interferon, but, at the time, it cost $15,000 a gram. The good part was that Interferon was a product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your system. Shortly after that paper came out the FDA tried to make Vit C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA says that the RDA for Vit C is 64 mg a day, just enough to prevent scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vit C and a second Nobel Prize for organic chemistry, said 1000 mg a day as a minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick. On a personal note, I was sick twice a year, for 2 weeks at a time, for 20 years, and was flat on my back for at least a week each time. To this day the doctors have no idea what the problem was. After I gave up on the doctors I tried Vit C. I took enough to keep from being sick and just below too much to get diarrhea. It followed a bell curve over 2 weeks with a peak at 40,000 mg a day – about 300,000 over the 2 weeks. I was not sick for those 2 weeks and after a couple of years of that I have not been sick since. I did not dissolve my kidneys, as some doctors said would happen. I did not get any calcium build up or stones and did not dissolve my cojones or solidify my joints. Try it, but drink a lot of water – Vit C is a natural diuretic.

Answer 3

Have you bumped your neck there?

The reason I ask is because my friend was in a motercycle accident and she had this hard lump like under her stomach. The doctors finally figured it out to be a "haematoma" (not quite sure of the spelling), which eventually goes away, and is pretty much harmless.

id go to the specialist, if thats what the doctor has ordered. there are hundreds of things it could be, alot far less worse than cancer. cancer is just one out of a hundred possibilities.

good luck though

Answer 4

No No i dont think so.

dont worry.

U go to the ENT doctor. They will take biopsy test. they will come to know what is the real problem only with that report.

Why do u think negatively. Always think positive.

Answer 5

I don't know and I wish you well. But check out hacres.com.
You don't have to be sick and/or wondering if you have cancer for the rest of your life!

Answer 6

please don't worry too much...even if you have contracted cancer, don't worry at all. throughout history, there were numerous folks who survived cancers... Lance Armstrong, the tour de france champ who survived a fatal cancer...and not to forget Paul Allen who also survived Hodgekin's disease.
don't worry...be happy...