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TexasBushwhacker

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11. Lance Armstrong had advanced stage 3 testicular
Thu Feb 27, 2014, 08:19 PM
Feb 2014

I don't know why it wasn't called stage 4 because he had mets in his brain, abdomen and lungs, but he made it.

Biologist Stephen Jay Gould was diagnosed with mesothelioma when he was 40. It was considered a death sentence at the time, with half the patients dying in less than a year. But he decided to get aggressive and try experimental therapies and he ended up living another 20 years, dying of an entirely different cancer. He wrote a great article called "The Median Isn't The Message". Here it is:

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/Stat2/GouldCancer.html

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