I'm real worried about my back. A few years ago I noticed I had a small lump on each side of my lower back. I asked my orthapedic and he said it was normal. I wasn't worried because a lot of people have them. But for a while now i've been getting really bad back pain. The other day I was rubbing my back and noticed that now there are several lumps and are much bigger in size. I'm worried it could be cancer because there is a lot of cancer in both sides of my family. I had an x-ray done and the hospital didn't say anything but that was before I told them about the lumps to the weren't looking for anything like that and I read on the internet that sometimes tumors in the muscle are hard to see on x-ray. Not to mention I know from experience they can't read x-rays for crap.(they sent me home with a broken hip once. The next day they called and said they made a mistake and I wound up haveing surgery. My hip was broke and a peice of bone had acctaully shifted out of place.How could anyone not notice that?)