1. Could Be Ruled Out of Bounds Comment
Recent Lance tweet:
Golfed w/ @college6 today. On one tee I couldn't find my ball. I said, ¡°you take my ball college?¡± He replied, ¡°no, cancer did.¡±
2. What's in YOUR "Hurt Locker"?
Hurt less, know more. The Pain and Policy Studies Group, supported by LIVESTRONG, has developed state-by-state pain Rx ¡°report cards,¡± to help share new analgesic info.
3. Odds Are, Not Exactly Lance
Writing on the ¡°gift¡± of cancer in The Daily Beast, Mark McKinnon, vice chairman of Public Strategies, says of his wife: ¡°When told she was in a 15 percent survival category, Annie said, 'Well, I sure feel sorry for those other 85 percent.' [She] beat the odds; turned out to be Lance Armstrong in a skirt.¡±
4. You could call it: CSI: Tumor Town
To boost survival rates among those aged 15 to 39, Adam Clark, Ph.D., LIVESTRONG's Director of Science and Policy, helped develop the AYA (Adolescent and Young Adult) Biorepository, to track tumor genes, and ¡°crimes¡± of sorts, against youthful bodies diagnosed with cancer.
5. Birthday2: Survivor (Re)makes History
A Danish doctor, Stinne Bergholdt, M.D., made cancer
survivor history recently when she gave birth to her second child, after transplant of her ovarian tissue, frozen
before treatment. For updated fertility info, visit livestrong.org/What-We-Do/Our-Actions/Programs-Partnerships/Fertile-Hope.
