Edwards' Case Shows Cancer Can Hit Everyone

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Elizabeth Edwards' breast cancer carries two messages to American women, doctors say: Breast cancer attacks the well known and unknown alike, and early detection remains the best defense. Edwards, 55, noticed a lump before the presidential election and underwent a needle biopsy Wednesday, hours after John Kerry and her husband and vice-presidential candidate, John Edwards, conceded defeat.

Could the nonstop stress of the Democratic primaries and the bitter general election have contributed to the tumor?

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Edwards' Case Shows Cancer Can Hit Everyone

Probably not, doctors said, but the months of exhausting, high- adrenaline politics may have made the cancer grow faster.

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