Breast Cancer, Elizabeth Edwards | featured news

John Edwards walked his daughter Cate, 29, down the aisle today as she married her Princeton University sweetheart, Trevor Upham, 30. A 4 p.m. ceremony at United Methodist Church was followed by a reception on the lawn at the Edwards' home, reports People.com. An altar candle in the church was lit in memory of Cate's mom, Elizabeth Edwards, who died 10 months ago from breast cancer. "We want this to be really happy and joyous and that's what my mother would want," Cate, 29, told People in the days before the wedding.

A son dying young. A six-year battle with cancer. A humiliating betrayal. Americans knew Elizabeth Edwards in large part through her tragedies, but more importantly, they knew her for the vitality and determination she showed in dealing with them. Her cancer incurable and her former-presidential-candidate husband mired in a paternity scandal, she did not shrink from public life but shared her story and advocated for health care reform.

Elizabeth Edwards is gravely ill and doctors have told her she only has weeks to live, according to a family friend who is among those who have gathered with Edwards at her North Carolina home.