India, Feb. 24 -- Don Bongino, newly-appointed FBI Deputy Director, was once diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and even underwent surgery for a large tumor in his neck.

Bongino has previously experienced multiple lipomas, all of which were malignant, according to Fox News. Due to his prior experiences, he thought the lump was just another lipoma. It wasn't until he saw a radiologist for a checkup that he discovered the 10-centimeter-long, 7-centimeter-wide tumor next to his carotid artery and voice cords might be cancerous.

"I get lipomas - fatty tumors once in a while [...] They're benign, I've never had any issue with them at all and I noticed there was a lump on the left side of my neck about two weeks ago," he told Fox New...