In all of the discussion about Elizabeth Edwards's breast cancer recurrence, I kept waiting to hear what women who'd faced a metastasis of their original cancer, just like Elizabeth, had to say, what they thought of the choices she's made.

And waited, and waited.

So today my column contains the thoughts of those women, many of whom have faced disease much more advanced than Elizabeth's. Luane Semos's story really touched me (that's Luane on the left in the picture). She had been undergoing fertility treatments when, at 34, she had her first diagnosis ...