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What kind of odds does Elizabeth Edwards face now that her cancer has spread from breast to bone? Oddly enough, doctors find it nearly impossible to say. They can state with some confidence that a woman with this kind of stage 4 disease, who has never been treated for cancer, faces approximately a 1 in 4 chance of being alive five years after treatment. But the odds are different - and lower - for someone who has already been treated and in whom the cancer is recurring. That's because the tumor cells that have continued to grow are resistant to whatever...
...This is not a virgin cancer," explains Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris breast center at the University of Southern California. "These are cancer cells that survived the fight with chemotherapy." Doctors commonly say that the average survival for breast cancer that recurs and spreads after treatment is two to three years, but "there's a huge lack of statistics in this circumstance," says Russell, who chairs the breast cancer advisory committee for the American Cancer Society. For a patient like Edwards, who is 57, the response to renewed treatment will depend on the specific and unknown genetic...
...York arm of the first national organization for lesbians and later lobbied to change the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. The sign she carried at a 1965 White House protest--SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS IRRELEVANT TO FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT--now resides at the Smithsonian. She was 75 and had breast cancer...
...campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly." The words from John Edwards were a shock, coming as they did after he and his wife Elizabeth had spent the opening minutes of their press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., describing how her breast cancer had returned, and spread to her bones. Just moments before, John Edwards had explained that because his wife's cancer had spread "from breast to bone, it is no longer curable." With that grim statement, I - and, presumably, many other listeners - assumed that the former North Carolina Senator and top-tier contender for the 2008 Democratic...
...three years ago. Janet Jackson's 2004 flash at the Super Bowl reawoke the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to decency issues and left producers scouring TV footage for too droopy bathing suits. A few fines and a lot of blurred-out prime-time flesh later, the bare-breast buzz has faded from the headlines...