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To: Suma who wrote (35679)	3/22/2007 4:25:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541327

Mrs. Edwards seems like a marvelous woman, and a strong and supportive partner to her husband. I hope they can enjoy this year, and a few more, before she dies. Since they have lived through the death of a child I suppose they can live through anything- I can't imagine anything more devastating than that. I truly think the death of your child is the worst thing that can happen to you- worse than your own death, for most parents, I think, because it so upsets the natural order of things.

To: Suma who wrote (35679)	3/23/2007 1:02:16 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 541327

Her treatment was initially aggressive at the beginning when she was first diagnosed. After a biopsy, the axial lymph nodes are biopsied to see if any cancer has entered those nodes. If it has entered a large number of nodes the chances are that it's already somewhere else but not detectable. Treatment will be aggressive; ie, the patient will be treated with chemotherapy to quickly facilitate killing of systemic cancer cells that have started growing in another organ apart from the primary origin ( in Edward's case it's the breast ). These strayed cells may not yet be detectable as all tumors need to be a certain size before they can be detected. She likely has others that are microscopic and can't yet be found. Edward's treatment was initially aggressive in that she was given chemotherapy before surgery. That, to me, means her Dr is trying to kill cells that have spread before they remove additional tissues surrounding the primary tumor. They were already afraid it had spread to another body part. Also, there are many different kinds of breast cancers and some are more or less aggressive then others so it's hard to know exactly what she had. Inflammatory Breast Cancer, tho rare, is classified as a stage 4 initially and treated like metastasized cancer from the beginning. I don't think Edward's had that kind ,( the kind Molly Ivins had ), so she probably had several cancer positive lymph nodes. there are some better kinds of chemo these days so she might get lucky and live for many more years. She also might not. Only time will tell. I fell like he will be forced to drop his campaign when all the cards are face up on the table.