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...Fighting to Live After reading that Elizabeth Edwards is living with metastatic breast cancer, I have to warn women that cancer still kills [April 9]. While treatments have improved greatly, without early detection of the first onset or of recurrence, cancer remains deadly. I urge all women to listen to the subtle messages your bodies send. Challenge your doctors, and do not be too afraid or too busy to make an appointment for an examination. Fund-raising commercials and cancer-center advertisements show smiling, apparently healthy patients who seem to have beaten the disease. What Edwards and TV commercials show...
...Edwards’ law school roommate Sun Jung Kim recalls the day that news broke of Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer. The former senator’s wife flew to Cambridge to be near her daughter...
...stranger to the campaign trail. With the first Democratic primary less than nine months away, she has continued to play an active role in her father’s run, despite a full slate of courses and the announcement that her mother, Elizabeth, is again being treated for cancer. Facing fresh obstacles and new opponents, Edwards says that her support of her father and family remains just as strong...
...That support system has been tested this year, after the family announced in March that Elizabeth Edwards, Cate’s mother, had again been diagnosed with breast cancer. She first underwent treatment for the disease after the 2004 campaign...
Furthermore, most are aware that cancer is indisputably devastating, whereas, to many, the symptoms of many mental illnesses seem only freakish or funny. These harmful misconceptions are often perpetuated by popular media, which get away with portraying obsessive-compulsives as comically anal because the consuming public doesn’t know enough to protest or to turn away with shaking heads, saying, “That?...