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Edwards to Suspend Campaign (Update: Wife's cancer has returned - Does not suspend Campaign)
The Politico ^ | March 22, 2007 | Ben Smith

Posted on 03/22/2007 8:23:49 AM PDT by kddid

John Edwards is suspending his campaign for President, and may drop out completely, because his wife has suffered a recurrence of the cancer that sickened her in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, an Edwards friend told The Politico.

"At a minimum he's going to suspend" the campaign, the source said. "Nobody knows precisely how serious her recurrence is. It’ll be another couple of days before there’s complete clarity."

"For him right now he has one priority which is her health and the security of the two young children," said the friend.

As for the campaign, "You don't shut this machine off completely, but everything will go on hold."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bowingout; cancer; edwards2008; prayers
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361 posted on 03/22/2007 9:50:58 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: NautiNurse
It was the pain from the rib fracture that caused her to seek medical assistance.

Understood, but, in my experience, ribs don't crack easily.

362 posted on 03/22/2007 9:51:01 AM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: maggief

Did they say it was Stage IV?


363 posted on 03/22/2007 9:51:15 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Democratshavenobrains
the libtards at Kos were saying he was "so brave" for suspending his campaign are now saying hes "so brave" for not suspending it.

Per usual, they talk out of both sides of their empty heads.

364 posted on 03/22/2007 9:51:37 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.)
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To: Carolinamom

>>>I wish her well as she and her family face this battle against incurable but treatable cancer.

If this is anything like I saw with my mother, treatment will only prolong the inevitable.


365 posted on 03/22/2007 9:51:44 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Attention Liberals! Shhhh, listen closely! That's the sound of nobody caring what you think!)
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To: Peach

He's not suspending.

I did not hear the Stage IV, but if that is true...


366 posted on 03/22/2007 9:52:03 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: kddid

If it hasn't been said already, I'd like to remind the ladies here to GET THEIR MAMMOGRAMS.


367 posted on 03/22/2007 9:52:26 AM PDT by dontposttome (This has been a public service announcement.)
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To: Howlin; NautiNurse

i am not sure but wouldn't bone involvement make it stage 4?


368 posted on 03/22/2007 9:52:38 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Howlin
"Did they say it was Stage IV?"

If it's in her bones, it's Stage IV now.

370 posted on 03/22/2007 9:53:23 AM PDT by Texas dog
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To: Howlin

Thanks for answering.

FNC: Cancer is in the bones. Campaign goes on. (I must have misunderstood about the campaign earlier).

I'm stunned he's continuing. They have 2 little kids. Who will be taking care of them?


371 posted on 03/22/2007 9:53:31 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons' pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: xsmommy

That's what they are saying here.


372 posted on 03/22/2007 9:53:35 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: kddid

Cancer spread to bones.Very sad.

373 posted on 03/22/2007 9:53:36 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Peach

I thought Stage IV cancer is terminal, didn't know that it was treatable at that point.


374 posted on 03/22/2007 9:53:55 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
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To: Howlin

On FNC they said it was stage IV.

Wow, she already has had a CT scan. Quick.

(Advice to all, get a FULL BODY PET scan if diagnosed with cancer.)

http://www.breastcancer.org/dia_pict_staging.html

Stage IV

This stage includes invasive breast cancer in which

* a tumor has spread beyond the breast, underarm, and internal mammary lymph nodes, and

* a tumor may have spread to the supraclavicular lymph nodes (nodes located at the base of the neck, above the collarbone), lungs, liver, bone, or brain.

"Metastatic at presentation" means that the breast cancer has spread beyond the breast and nearby lymph nodes, even though this is the first diagnosis of breast cancer. The reason for this is that the primary breast cancer was not found when it was only inside the breast. Metastatic cancer is considered stage IV.


375 posted on 03/22/2007 9:54:03 AM PDT by maggief
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To: xsmommy

Yes, it is now classified Stage IV.


376 posted on 03/22/2007 9:54:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.)
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To: Peach

That's terrible. Very sad.


377 posted on 03/22/2007 9:54:50 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: NautiNurse

it is just heartbreaking that she has small children.


378 posted on 03/22/2007 9:55:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
. . . and that is precisely why I think his numbers will plummet. This was a bottom-o-the-barrell BS attempt at publicity. Who's talked about him since the Coulter debacle?
379 posted on 03/22/2007 9:55:23 AM PDT by stentorian conservative ("I don't have to hire a consultant to develop a conservative image, I am a conservative." -D Hunter)
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To: Howlin
I don't know Howlin. When my Mom was diagnosed with cancer - it was Stage IV @ that time. The oncologist told us he could push it back but it would return in the end. And it did with a vengeance. But she had three good years before it did.
380 posted on 03/22/2007 9:55:32 AM PDT by daybreakcoming
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