My gp sent me to a surgeon for a biopsy consult. There is a lump in my left armpit that has steadily grown since november. It was the size of a medium-sized egg, but now it has spread out into my upper chest. I also discovered a hard lump under my left jaw this past february (almost where the curve of jaw is). It's grown a little since I first discovered it (it was about the size of the tip of a fingernail at first), now it's about the size of a large pea, hard as bone, immoveable. The surgeon first checked the jaw and told me not to worry about it, that it was the end of a ligament (not until I got home did I think "a ligament just hanging on the underside of my jaw?") then he check my armpit and told me that it was fatty tissue, and that I needn't worry abuot that either. The armpit explanation sounds plausible, but the hard knot under my jaw is a ligament? Does that sound right? Or am I just being paranoid. I do see my gp again in a week, and I will ask her, but I just feel really duped. I'm a 42 year old female.