Cancer: The Great Equalizer

With the recent news of Elizabeth Edwards' and Tony Snow's cancers recurring, this article in the Washington Post was particularly poignant:

WASHINGTON -- A powerful podium like Tony Snow's and wealth like Elizabeth Edwards' mean nothing to cancer cells. A disease that afflicts the comfortable along with everyone else, cancer casts a large shadow in this presidential campaign, and now in the White House.

The back-to-back revelations that President Bush's spokesman and the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards are battling recurrences of cancer have resonated not just in living rooms, but high places, too.

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