[Jenna_Bird]

Do you know what chances his doctors gave him of beating the cancer he had? It was virtually nil.

Really? That's odd because testicular cancer has a very high successful treatment rate. It's up around 90%, actually. It's only terminal when the cancer goes systemic - invading the other organs of the body. I'm sure that hasn't happened in Armstrong's case because, frankly, he'd be dead. He can live wihout his testicles but he's not winning the Tour without his lungs or liver.

Well, pehaps I'm confusing Armstrong with someone else here, but I was almost sure that the cancer had spread into other organs, including his stomach, lungs, brain, and lymphatic system.

My statment that his chances of survival were "virtually nil" might have been a exaggeration, but if the cancer had spread as I'm thinking it did, it had to have been very low.

His chances were somewhere around 20%, at best. The cancer spread to his lungs and his brain. It is stated in his book, It's Not About the Bike, and the press conference he gave upon being diagnosed reveals similar information. It is now used in a LAF commercial to raise cancer awareness.

-Jenna