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?
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