This story is an in-depth interview with Elizabeth Edwards about her breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, recurrence, and status. Edwards shared her breast cancer experiences, from the time she first felt the lump to her feelings about her mortality. WebMD reporter Miranda Hitti worked for a year to get this interview. Edwards did the interview in connection with her new memoir, Resilience, and she talked to many other media outlets during the same time. But many other reporters chose to focus on Edwards' marital situation and her husband's infidelity. The WebMD story focused on her breast cancer and the public health lessons Edwards wanted to share to save other women's lives – for example, the need to get mammograms as recommended, which Edwards admits she didn't do before her cancer was found.
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