Nairobi, March 2 -- Popular United States attorney Elizabeth Edwards felt a lump in her breast while examining herself before the bathroom mirror in her Radisson Hotel suite in Wisconsin on October 21, 2004.

Ten years earlier after undergoing a mammogram, a harmless fibrous cyst had been discovered in her breast before being surgically extracted.

The latest lump was clearly larger than the previous one, but as she felt its smooth contour, she was convinced this had to be another cyst.

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For years, Elizabeth had made the excuses many people make for not taking a breast cancer examination, thus unknowingly fomenting a misfortune.

One of her excuses was ra...