Lance Armstrong as a role model for kicking cancers ass

[Agnostic007]

Lance Armstrong as a role model for kicking cancers ass.

We hear it all the time, someone is diagnosed with cancer and they say "I'm strong and tenacious enough to beat this.." or people will comment "They are really tought, they are going to fight this.."

Then there are some who for whatever reason.. usually just the statistical survival rate, will claim "I beat cancer" or "God cured me of cancer"

So the people who died from it were not fighting hard enough? Or God didn't see fit to answer their prayers?

  

[clued-up]

 WTF you babbling about... lame thread 

[The Showstoppa]

I'm just tired of the media acting like was some sort of intestinal fortitude that enabled Lance to "kick cancers ass."  And for the record I read an interview where someone mentioned "belief in a higher power" or something and Lance just dismissed as if he was soley responsible.  wow....talk about arrogance.  Lance was lucky to survive.....I do respect his work ethic (although highly drug enduced) to come back and compete....but those are two totally different things in my book.  Give him credit for the comeback, but to act like he kicked cancers ass cause he's just that damn tough is a joke and a mockery of all the people who weren't as lucky as Lance.

[Mr. Magoo]

A person with a good attitude is just as likely to survive cancer as a person with a bad attitude

statistical fact

[JimmyJam1974]

A person with a good attitude is just as likely to survive cancer as a person with a bad attitude

statistical fact

Option D?

[LMV]

showstoppa's point ........... kinda personal innit ?

[Hulkotron]

Cancer patients are so uppity.

[Master Blaster]

I'm just tired of the media acting like was some sort of intestinal fortitude that enabled Lance to "kick cancers ass."  And for the record I read an interview where someone mentioned "belief in a higher power" or something and Lance just dismissed as if he was soley responsible.  wow....talk about arrogance.  Lance was lucky to survive.....I do respect his work ethic (although highly drug enduced) to come back and compete....but those are two totally different things in my book.  Give him credit for the comeback, but to act like he kicked cancers ass cause he's just that damn tough is a joke and a mockery of all the people who weren't as lucky as Lance.

The way he kept training, wasting away during chemo, with brain surgey scars on his head, was kind of inspiring.

[The True Adonis]

I'm just tired of the media acting like was some sort of intestinal fortitude that enabled Lance to "kick cancers ass."  And for the record I read an interview where someone mentioned "belief in a higher power" or something and Lance just dismissed as if he was soley responsible.  wow....talk about arrogance.  Lance was lucky to survive.....I do respect his work ethic (although highly drug enduced) to come back and compete....but those are two totally different things in my book.  Give him credit for the comeback, but to act like he kicked cancers ass cause he's just that damn tough is a joke and a mockery of all the people who weren't as lucky as Lance.

Lance Armstrong is an atheist and is not afraid to say so.  He never claimed to have "beaten cancer" by himself, instead he gives his doctors the credit. (although he would not be totally incorrect in citing his genetics as he responded well to the cancer therapy and of course the location of the cancer cells which was genetic)

He also cites Medical Research as another reason.


I believed, too, in the doctors and the medicine and the surgeries--I believed in that. I believed in them. A person like Dr. Einhorn [his oncologist], that's someone to believe in, I thought, a person with the mind to develop an experimental treatment 20 years ago that now could save my life. I believed in the hard currency of his intelligence and his research.-Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong was quoted by ET Magazine as saying "If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts."

[disco_stu]

Lance Armstrong as a role model for kicking cancers ass.

We hear it all the time, someone is diagnosed with cancer and they say "I'm strong and tenacious enough to beat this.." or people will comment "They are really tought, they are going to fight this.."

Then there are some who for whatever reason.. usually just the statistical survival rate, will claim "I beat cancer" or "God cured me of cancer"

So the people who died from it were not fighting hard enough? Or God didn't see fit to answer their prayers?

   

actually i quite like this topic.. well put and well said.

so whats the answer then?...who's going to tell their family that they didnt fight hard enough?- or God has smitten thou?...

im with you...its a crap shoot. some recover, some dont. god and fighting my arse..

[Nirvana]

If he dies, he d...Nevermind.

[JOHN MATRIX]