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Cancer and a Candidate’s Wife: the Final Campaign That is Gripping America

Elizabeth Edwards is moving along the line at the Iowa headquarters for her husband John Edwards’s presidential campaign. As outstretched hands reach towards her a burly man in a leather jacket gives her a Lance Armstrong Live Strong bracelet. Mrs Edwards stares at the yellow rubber ring. “I have one of these,” she says.

Cancer eclipses politics Choosing legacy of life means campaign goes on

WHAT I KEEP remembering during the long conversation about cancer and politics, about ambition and parenting, about Elizabeth and John Edwards, is the video I watched the day before their announcement.
On YouTube, the candidate was shown grooming his hair in a TV green room, while a soundtrack from “West Side Story” played the tune “I […]

Cancer May Switch Focus of Edwards Campaign.

CHARLESTON — Presidential hopeful John Edwards will be making a stop in the Mountain State this week for a private fundraiser.
The Democratic candidate announced last week that his wife Elizabeth’s breast cancer had returned, but the couple would continue their run at the White House.
It’s a decision many cancer survivors and research advocates are […]

Doctors: Cancer is the ‘great equalizer’

WASHINGTON — A powerful podium like Tony Snow’s and wealth like Elizabeth Edwards’ mean nothing to cancer cells. A disease that afflicts the comfortable along with everyone else, cancer casts a large shadow in this presidential campaign, and now in the White House.
The back-to-back revelations that President Bush’s spokesman and the wife of Democratic presidential […]