# Swollen Collarbone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swollen-collarbone/499920>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 16, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swollen-collarbone/499920 "2009-06-16T06:54:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mordwynd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Mordwynd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mordwynd)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swollen-collarbone/499920/1 "2009-06-16T06:54:46Z")

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My collarbone feels what i can best describe as extra bone on it near where it attaches to the sternum. There isn’t really any pain. What could it be?

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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swollen-collarbone/499920/2 "2009-06-16T11:02:45Z")

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Go to a doctor…

My wife had Hodgkin’s disease, that started in that area. Actually it started as a swollen lymph node in her neck, the next site was in her sternum area.