To make a diagnosis your doctor will feel and look at your lump.
But sometimes doctors can’t tell for certain whether the lump is a lipoma or not. Lipomas can be confused with malignant (cancerous) tumours, called liposarcoma.Although liposarcomas do not start from having a lipoma, your doctor may feel it is best to remove your lipoma, or take a biopsy from it. It is only by looking at the cells under the microscope that a doctor can be certain it is a lipoma, and not something more serious.
