Edwards suspends will continue his campaign upon hearing that his wife has suffered a recurrence of cancer.

“The campaign goes on, the campaign goes on strongly… We’ve been confronted with these kinds of traumas before, (paraphrased) and we know that when they happen, you can either cower in the corner, or you can go out and be strong and fight for what you believe in.”

Thoughts and prayers to Elizabeth and the family.

Nora O’Donnell reporting that the Edwards campaign had called prominent Iowa supporters and told them it was bad news.

On MSNBC’s Howard Fineman is saying he’s heard “it’s bad news, very serious… it may have spread some.”

UPDATE: Pardon my cynicism, but if big news days are the days to release bad news that you want swept under the rug, then is this the perfect day for a particular North Carolina district attorney announce what Drudge is saying?

REPORT: All charges may be dropped as early as tomorrow in Duke Lacrosse rape case, FOXNEWS reports… ‘We will be hearing a dismissal in the coming days’… MORE…

Would this very embarrassing news end up at the bottom of the front page in North Carolina papers tomorrow, instead of above the fold?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Watching the press conference… as much as I may disagree with this guy, as much distaste as I have for his policies, the interaction between John and Elizabeth just feels… real, honest, familiar. Two people in love, dealing as best they can with a tough situation. Just because one wouldn’t want them as President and First Lady, that doesn’t mean one wouldn’t want them as neighbors.

(I won’t even make a joke about what it would take to afford being one of their neighbors. Elizabeth made a subtle joke about it during the conference, something like ”we recently moved into a new house, you may have heard about that.”)