You can't rely on the node being soft or hard to be an indication of cancer. Many are small, soft, painless, but when they enlarge, they can attach to bone or other structure, harden, and press on nerve to cause pain or can be from other reasons.. What some experienced doctors do is go by the shape, thickness of the lypmh node in the middle of it. Anyway, mine always sent me for testing..FNAB or scan.
