I have a hard knot on my right shoulder kind of above the collarbone in the muscle area. It s been there for around 3 months and recently has started giving me pain. The pain is in the general area and now has started going up the right side of my neck. I am worried because cancer does run in my mother s side of the family. Should I be concerned.
Hi, Dear,Good afternoon. Thanks for the query to my Chat Doctor online-clinic. I studied your query in-depth.-In my opinion the painful hard knot above collar bone for last 3mths is mostly due to the Necrotic Hopkins / or TB lymphadenitis/ or due to infectious mono / or due to Lyme disease with lymphadenitis -Cause of lump-Could be fixed by the MRI / FNAC Biopsy of the hard lump-as you have family history of Cancer.-Inflammatory /infectious / or cancerous-HL / NHL-needs to be differentiated undercover of-ER Surgeon-as it concerns me due to your family history. Personally still I feel it to be of chronic infectious origin unless proved otherwise.-Hope this would resolve your worry-some query. Wellcome again to Chat Doctor. Have a good day.