What would you say to cancer?

When I first thought of speaking to cancer as if it were a person I thought it might be a bit contrived, or ineffective or something along those lines. After watching this video I realize that it really helps. I can imagine that someone who has truly had a fight with cancer might have already had an internal monologue similar to what these people are saying here. Makes you realize how lucky one can be to get a less aggressive form of cancer. I have to say that I was quite moved by the end of it.



Seeing this personal response kind of makes Lance's comments to that jerk reporter even more poignant.

Lance, what a badass.

My parents showed me this video a while back. Wasn't able to find an embeddable version til now. Whether or not Lance cheated in the past is irrelevant. Cancer is a horrible disease that affects so many people in the world. It is never ok to make fun using cancer as a punch line. That journalist should be fired.



PS This was during a press conference for the most recent Tour of California, where Lance's teammate Levi Leipheimer took the final yellow jersey.