As summer faded into autumn, the lump appeared to have grown, split into two and spread down my neck and up to my face. I was booked in to have the lump aspirated. Cells were sent away for diagnosis.

I never noticed the lump in my neck until my doctor slid my fingers over it and asked, "How did you not feel this?" I remember telling her that no one ever suggested I check my neck. I was only in ...

The cancer had wrapped around my left carotid artery, one of the major blood vessels going to my head and neck—had she injured it during surgery, that could have led to paralysis or even death.

It was the rather large, painless lump in my neck, as well as my drastic 6-10kg weight loss in one month, that triggered my parents to take me to a specialist for closer inspection.

The most common way in which HPV head and neck cancers are found is from it spreading into the lymph nodes in the neck. The story we often hear is, "I was shaving, and I felt a lump in my neck." ...

The most common way in which HPV head and neck cancers are found is from it spreading into the lymph nodes in the neck. The story we often hear is, "I was shaving, and I felt a lump in my neck." ...