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The Edge's daughter has cancer

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Cancer Heartbreak for U2’s Edge

Heartbreaking news from the U2 camp last week. The band’s world tour, which was set to start in Florida on March 1, will be delayed because lead
guitarist The Edge’s young daughter has been diagnosed with leukemia. The band was due to unveil details and on-sale dates for the tour early this month, but manager Paul McGuinness posted a message on the U2 website last week saying the plans had temporarily changed. “We’ve postponed the announcement of the tour because the routing is still being worked on. As soon as we get everything confirmed over the coming weeks, we’ll let you know,” McGuinness said. But news soon emerged that little Sian Evans, only seven years old, was recently diagnosed with cancer, and that her dad, whose given name is Dave Evans, has
been by her side ever since. Sian has been receiving her treatment at a Dublin hospital. Sian is the eldest child of The Edge and his second wife Morleigh Steinberg. The couple is also parents of a son, Levi, age four. The Edge and American-born Morleigh met during U2’s Zooropa tour in the early 1990s; Morleigh was one of the backup dancers. They married in the south of France in the summer of 2002 in front of family and celebrity friends including all the members of U2 and supermodel Helena Christensen. The Edge had three children with his first wife Aislinn before divorcing several years ago. Childhood leukemia is a treatable disease, but one can only imagine the pain the Evans family is experiencing. Touring the world with U2 must be the last thing on The Edge’s mind, and the world will certainly wait for however long it takes for Sian to get better. U2 has it all going for them this year — a critically acclaimed new album that’s selling like hotcakes all over the world, a March induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — but at the end of the day your
health is your wealth. Here’s hoping that the lovely little Sian is well on the road to recovery, and that this nightmare quickly ends for the Evans family.
Nothing else really matters.

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