Update on Elizabeth Edwards

From the American Cancer Society:

"The survival statistics on the American Cancer Society Web site and in Cancer Facts & Figures apply to a woman who presents initially with a stage IV breast cancer, not a woman who has a recurrence after primary treatment. The outlook for a woman who walks into the doctor's office with metastatic disease is significantly worse than for a woman, like Mrs Edwards, who presents initially with disease confined to the breast and adjacent lymph nodes. The survival statistic for patients who present with Stage IV disease has no meaning in Ms. Edwards' case, and should not be interpreted as a suggestion of her survival chances. There are no nationally validated statistics on survival when breast cancer recurs after primary treatment."