One need not be a psychic to predict what is coming in this press conference by John and Elizabeth Edwards.

John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat making a second bid for the presidency, called a news conference for Thursday to discuss the future of his campaign, a day after he and his wife, Elizabeth, visited Mrs. EdwardsÂ’s doctor to assess her recovery from a bout of breast cancer.

Mrs. Edwards, in a brief interview from her home in Chapel Hill, N.C., said she and Mr. Edwards would discuss her health at the news conference, but she declined to elaborate.

“I’m still here,” she said.

Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the Edwards campaign, would not comment. The news conference is to be held in Chapel Hill.

Mr. Edwards canceled a campaign appearance in Iowa on Wednesday to join his wife on what he had described as a presumably routine follow-up examination.

Mrs. Edwards, 57, received a cancer diagnosis in 2004 almost on the day that Mr. Edwards, the vice-presidential candidate, and Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, were defeated in their race for the White House.

Mr. Edwards has said he waited to announce a second bid for the presidency until he and Mrs. EdwardsÂ’s doctors were confident about her recovery.

I suspect that Elizabeth's cancer is back, and that John Edwards will be showing a level of spousal devotion I admire and will end his campaign for President. If this is the case, my respect for John Edwards will increase dramatically -- and the Edwards family will be in my deepest prayers. Some things you don't want to see even your political opponents face, and cancer is one of them.

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