Relapsing breast cancer

The Cheerful Oncologist has a post about the recurrence of Elizabeth (Mrs. John) Edwards’ breast cancer. The comments from readers are wrenching — with repeated remarks that, now, the survivors are afraid that their own cancer will return.

Having just gone through my mother’s cancer and death – not due to the cancer, but from the effects of “para-neoplastic syndromes,” due to the antibodies her body made against the cancer – I strongly urge the the Edwards family focus on their lives together.