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 checked my armpit and told me that it was fatty tissue, and that I needn't worry about that either. Anyway, he said that doing a biopsy on either one was going to be pointless. 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. Thanks for any input.