Reply #32: Eight or Nine months ago was when John and Elizabeth Edwards [View All]

[JDPriestly]

were dealing with Elizabeth's health. I doubt that this story is true.

At a March 22, 2007 press conference,<7> John and Elizabeth Edwards announced that her cancer had returned, and that his campaign for the Presidency was continuing at full steam. They said that she is asymptomatic, and that she expects to continue actively campaigning while undergoing treatment.<8> Her doctor, Dr. Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, described the diagnosis as stage IV (metastatic) breast cancer with a spot in her rib and possibly her lung. In a March 25 interview on 60 Minutes, Edwards said that there was also a spot in her hip found on her bone scan.<9> The Edwardses and Dr. Carey stressed that the cancer is not curable, but is treatable.<7><10> As of April 2, 2007 Edwards was informed that her cancer may be treatable with anti-estrogen drugs. "I consider that a good sign. It means there are more medications which I can expect to be responsive," she told the Associated Press during a campaign stop with her husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<11>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Edwards