What Does It Mean to Feel a Lump in Your Throat? Interviewer: You feel a lump in your throat. What does that mean? What could it be? Is it a cold? Postnasal drip? Maybe something else? To help us ...

Gene Weingarten embarks on a medical mystery. So here I was exactly 20 years later, same doc. I asked him what his best guess was about my lump, and he said, basically, “mets.” ...