I am a 21 year old female with several unexplained, hard, painless lumps. When I noticed the first one, I thought it was just a cyst, but now I have 2 in one armpit, 1 in the other armpit, and 3 on my mons pubis. Does this sound serious enough to see a doctor, and, the obvious question, how likely is cancer (family history for several types of cancers).
Hi! Thanks for writing to us and sharing your health concerns regarding multiple unexplained, hard, painless lumps in different lymph node regions of your body. When a person comes to my clinic first I examine him/her if these are matted lymph nodes or not and then I go for FNAC/BIOPSY TEST from at least two different nodules which are larger! In such cases I think of few possibilities like