After a six-year battle with breast cancer, Elizabeth Edwards has died at age 61.
Edwards passed away at 10:15 a.m. this morning as a result of liver failure, but the family did not release the news until late in the day because her children were at school, a close friend of the family told ABC News.
Edwards, who was estranged from her husband and one-time presidential hopeful John Edwards, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. The cancer returned in 2007, and earlier this week it was announced the she had stopped all cancer treatment.
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I remember doctors giving her weeks to live after the cancer spread to her liver, but she only lived days after the anoucement.