Cancer Will Not Stop My Campaign ; INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Mar 23, 05:21 AM

Current Headlines: UNITED States presidential hopeful John Edwards said yesterday he would continue his campaign for the Democratic nomination, despite the return of his wife's cancer.

"The campaign goes on. The campaign goes on strongly," Edwards told reporters, his wife by his side.

Edwards, 53, cancelled a Tuesday evening house party in Iowa to go with his wife to a doctor's appointment, which his campaign described as a follow-up to a routine test she had Monday.

Elizabeth Edwards, 57, was first diagnosed with cancer in the final weeks of the 2004 campaign.

The day after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and Edwards, his running mate, conceded the election to George Bush, Edwards announced that his wife had invasive ductal cancer, the most common type of breast cancer, and would undergo treatment.

Mrs Edwards underwent several months of radiation and chemotherapy for the lump in her breast. Her husband's campaign has said she had recovered from the illness.

"I don't look sickly, I don't feel sickly. I amas ready as any person can be for that," she said at the news conference.

John Edwards said a biopsy of her rib had shown that the cancer had returned. The bone is one of the most common places where breast cancer spreads, and once it does so it is not considered curable.

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