http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/08/24/domhnall-macauley-santa-claus-and-lance-armstrong/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/08/24/domhnall-macauley-santa-claus-and-lance-armstrong/#comment-16135 Jim Dickinson Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:45:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=19772#comment-16135 Lance Armstrong is indeed a force for fundraising for cancer care, and
that is good. It is almost nitpicking to note that he had one of the
most curable cancers, which has had very high cure rates for a long
time: it was after all, testicular cancer that rescued Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn from the gulag, and put him into a “Cancer Ward”, where he
was cured even with the limited treatments available in Uzbekistan in
1955. Thus he cannot attribute the recovery to force of
willpower. After all, the very high recovery rates even from late stage testicular
cancer, are one of the arguments for not needing to screen for this disease.

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