Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Essex, England
Help - I've Found a Lump... :-( Posted: 08-09-04 09:55am
Hi everyone. I'm a 21 year-old girl, and
I used to smoke about 20 cigarettes (with
occasional joints and cigars) for eight
years. I have now quit - and haven't
smoked in over 18 months.
However, i've found a lump inside mouth.
It's a perfect half-sphere shape, and
about a centimeter in diameter. It's
located about a centimeter underneath my
lower lip, on the inside, and it's
underneath the skin. It' doesn't hurt at
all, and it's definitely new - it probably
appeared sometime in the last two weeks.
There is no history of cancer in my
family, although the female members of my
family (my mum, auntie and cousin) have
all suffered with numerous large &
scary (but harmless) cysts in the arms
legs and breasts. I know mouth cancer is
rare for a girl of my age, but I have a
bad feeling about this.
I'm going to see a triage nurse about this
tomorrow because my surgury is really
busy. I have an appointment with a
proper doctor (for something else) in ten
days. It's very easy of me to think it
is cancer, but is there anything else it
could be? Thank you for reading this - I
haven't slept in days.
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Sean1969
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Location: USA
Posted: 09-22-04 20:05pm
We all have those. Mouth cancers usually
start up as a white or red patch (
leukoplakia and erythroplakia) . You
arent describing a lesion. You are
describing what sounds like a harmless
nodule. Feel like a bb under the skin?
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kayla88
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Eastern Canada
Posted: 01-24-05 23:47pm
sean1969
wrote:
we all have those. Mouth
cancers usually start up as a white or red
patch ( leukoplakia and erythroplakia) .
You arent describing a lesion. You are
describing what sounds like a harmless
nodule. Feel like a bb under the
skin?
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