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

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.

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