Senators wife has breast cancer

John Edwards said tests this week had shown his wife, Elizabeth, had cancer in a rib on her right side. He said the cancer is treatable but not curable. Elizabeth Edwards, 57, said she was "incredibly optimistic" and said her expectations about the future were unchanged. And the week after that, and next year at the same time," she said.

By Reuters Staff. Since Syria plunged into war eight years ago, the year-old former investment banker has taken on a public role of leading charity efforts and meeting families of killed soldiers, but has also become a hate figure for the opposition. Activists and insurgents accuse Asma al-Assad, born in London to a family from Homs City, of being complicit in atrocities they accuse the Syrian government of committing. A year ago, the Syrian presidency published a photo of Asma al-Assad hooked up to a drip, smiling and sitting next to her husband in a hospital room. She said she had received chemotherapy treatment at a Syrian military hospital.

Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards July 3, — December 7, was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards , the former U. Edwards lived a private life until her husband's rise as senator and ultimately unsuccessful vice presidential and presidential campaigns.

Edwards passed away at a. Edwards, who was estranged from her husband and one-time presidential hopeful John Edwards, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in The cancer returned in , and earlier this week it was announced the she had stopped all cancer treatment. The family friend said that even Edwards was surprised at how fast her illness progressed in her final days. Doctors had told her just last week that she could have as many as eight weeks to live.