A lump in the throat is commonly associated with the following diseases, the first of which, is chronic pharyngitis. Such a patient may be in the posterior wall of the pharynx or the root of the tongue long bumps, mostly lymphoid follicular hyperplasia manifestation. The second is a lump at the base of the tongue, which may be a papilloma at the base of the tongue or an ectopic thyroid gland. The third one is a lump on the tonsil, which may be papilloma of tonsil, tonsil cyst, or malignant tumor of tonsil, and the fourth one is a lump on the epiglottis, which may be epiglottis cyst. The fifth type, lumps in the throat and hypopharynx, etc., may be the manifestation of cancer, for example, laryngeal cancer of supraglottic type, with neoplasm in the epiglottic laryngeal surface; laryngeal cancer of glottic type with neoplasm in the vocal folds; and hypopharyngeal cancer of the pyriform fossa and other parts of the body, for example, with neoplasm.