Hi, i'm 19 years old and i've had a lump at the crook of my jaw below my ear since May 2021 when i first got it checked. The doctor said it was a lymph node and not to worry about it, but I never felt like he examined me properly. The lump is still here, and it is hard to the touch, immovable, and also painless. The lump is always there regardless of wether I am ill or not. Is there a possibly it's simply a lymph node that will stay like that, as in it got enlarged and then never went done?

Obviously I've looked online and seen the typical diagnosis of lumps like that and it's always some form of cancer. But I haven't really had any other symptoms. I have an appointment booked at a different GP surgery for 10 days time but every day i'm getting increasingly worried, there's so little information online about other possible causes and at 19 years old the idea of possibly having cancer is quite scary.

Just wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this before with a lymph node.