On November 3, 2004, Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer. She later revealed that she discovered a lump in her breast while on a campaign stop a few weeks earlier in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the midst of the campaign. Edwards became an activist for women's health and cancer patients, and underwent oncology treatments. In a November 2006 comment on the "Daily Kos" website, Edwards stated that on her last visit, her oncologist said that cancer was not one of the things going on in her life.