My 55 year old neighbor, who's overweight, a non-smoker, and has had 2 children, showed me a swelling under her left armpit. She can cup her hand around it, but it isn't hard, and only appeared a week ago. I told her to have it checked, but she says she'd be embarrassed to be told that it was only breast tissue. Neither she nor I know what swollen lymph nodes in that area would feel like and checking internet images has proved fruitless...unless she has bubonic plague, hah! ;)

Does anyone here know what I'm talking about? It's not a lump like you hear with breast cancer, but more of a mound. If they are inflamed nodes we wouldn't know what we're feeling exactly, for instance matted nodes? She doesn't have a regular appointment until December, and unless she's told that a non-hard mound in the axilla can mean cancer, she's going to wait until then to have it checked.

Just wondering if anyone had a clue?

Don't know what, but wouldn't she rather be embarrased than to be told it's too late to treat, and that if she had come in 4 months earlier something might have helped? Best of luck