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What Causes Painful Knot On The Collar Bone?

I have a hard knot on my right shoulder kind of above the collarbone in the muscle area. It s been there for around 3 months and recently has started giving me pain. The pain is in the general area and now has started going up the right side of my neck. I am worried because cancer does run in my mother s side of the family. Should I be concerned.
Mon, 15 Jun 2015
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Hi,Dear,Good afternoon.Thanks for the query to my HCM online- clinic .I studied your query in-depth.
-In my opinion the painful hard knot above collar bone for last 3mths is mostly due to the Necrotic Hogekins / or TB lymphadenitis/ or due to infectious mono / or due to lymes disease with lymphadenitis
-Cause of lump-Could be fixed by the MRI / FNAC Biopsy of the hard lump-as you have family history of Cancer.
-Inflammatory /infectious / or cancerous-HL / NHL-needs to be differrentiated under cover of-ER Surgeon-as it concerns me due to your family history.Personally still I feel it to be of chronic infectious origin unless proved otherwise.
-Hope this would resolve your worry-some query.Wellcome again to HCM .Have a good day.
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What Causes Painful Knot On The Collar Bone?

Hi,Dear,Good afternoon.Thanks for the query to my HCM online- clinic .I studied your query in-depth. -In my opinion the painful hard knot above collar bone for last 3mths is mostly due to the Necrotic Hogekins / or TB lymphadenitis/ or due to infectious mono / or due to lymes disease with lymphadenitis -Cause of lump-Could be fixed by the MRI / FNAC Biopsy of the hard lump-as you have family history of Cancer. -Inflammatory /infectious / or cancerous-HL / NHL-needs to be differrentiated under cover of-ER Surgeon-as it concerns me due to your family history.Personally still I feel it to be of chronic infectious origin unless proved otherwise. -Hope this would resolve your worry-some query.Wellcome again to HCM .Have a good day.