I am bloated because I cannot sleep.

Fortunately, her lump proved to be benign.

Most of the swelling will disappear in the first few weeks, but some may remain for a few months.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

So what I'm going to talk about is just the overview, just you know the general actors and you know in general what's causing the redness, the swelling, the heat, and the pain.

So this is where you get a lot of your swelling, because all of sudden, the capillary's larger, more fluid, and actually, it gets smaller further down so it really encourages the fluid to collect right around here.

This pressure, turgidity, is caused by the osmotic flow of water from an area of low solute concentration outside of the cell into the cell's vacuole, which has a higher solute concentration.

Now it's bad enough that breast density makes it hard to find a cancer, but it turns out that it's also a powerful predictor of your risk for breast cancer.

We've all had cuts on our finger or wherever else on our body, and immediately that part of the body gets a little bit of redness, a little bit of swelling, some heat maybe, and, of course, there'll be some pain associated with what's going on there.

I returned home early to have a biopsy, but the pathology lab was achingly slow days passed with no word.