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About Me

Lance discusses the upcoming Presidential Candidate Forum on cancer - hope to see you there!

Greetings, all! Chris here, 10-year cancer survivor, LAF staff member, and the grassroots events coordinator here in Austin. We hope you'll want to join Lance and our team in the fight against cancer. We're here in force on MySpace and no strangers to the web: check out our award-winning site at www.livestrong.org - Carpe Diem!NEW! Check us out at www.youtube.com/livestrongarmy !Some important facts:
More than 10 million Americans are currently living with, through or beyond cancer.
More than 1.3 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer this year.
Of adults diagnosed with cancer today, 64% will be alive five years from now.
One in three people will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime.
Three in four families will care for a family member with cancer.
1,500 people will die today from cancer, 1/3 of those could live just with better access to existing care

My Interests

Kicking cancer's butt, helping those fight the good fight, and doing whatever it takes to help people live with, through, and beyond cancer!

I'd like to meet:

You! We're always looking for people to join Team LIVESTRONG - need help with cancer ? want to become an advocate or a volunteer ? maybe be a fundraiser for the LAF either through our LIVESTRONG Challenge Series or our grassroots program? - it's all good and we look forward to hearing from you soon...

Movies:

The Amazing opening from the 2006 LIVESTRONG Summit

Heroes:

Cancer survivors and their families, friends, supporters, and medical teams around the world.NEW : Got a phone with MP3 ringtones? Check it out: download the free intro / chorus to Wideawake's hit song, "Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow"!

Introduction --- Chorus

My Blog

See Lances Prop 15 Victory Speech!

Want to share this video? Tell your friends to visit: www.livestrong.org/prop15speech ...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

A message from Lance Armstrong

Thank you. Thank You. Thank You. Yesterday, Texans dealt a decisive blow in the fight against cancer by passing Prop. 15 by an overwhelming majority. Prop. 15 is the largest state-level investment in...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:59:00 PST

Want to be an Intern at the LAF?

The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) offers non-paid internships to students interested in gaining experience in a non-profit setting. Interns work directly with an LAF employee and engage in long and...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:48:00 PST

Texas Passes Cancer Bills!

LANDMARK CANCER BILLS PASS IN TEXAS LEGISLATUREVoters to Decide if Texas becomes Worldwide Cancer Research Leader AUSTIN, Texas - May 24, 2007 - The House concurred today with the Senate-passed versio...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:21:00 PST

Is 1 in 5 good enough for you?!

..> ..> ..>..> ..> ..> A Small Step for Cancer. To our friends at MySpace: Recently, President Bush signed a bill to reauthorize the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection pr...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Thu, 03 May 2007 11:10:00 PST

24 Hours of Booty: $1M for the LAF!

24 Hours of Booty, Inc. (www.24hoursofbooty.com), which runs the only 24-hour road cycling charity event in the country and the Official 24-Hour Cycling Event of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, today ...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:32:00 PST

MySpace LIVESTRONG Membership Drive!

We need your help to increase our friends here at MySpace!Did you know that LIVESTRONG Day is May 16? On that day we're sending 200 cancer survivors to Washington DC with Lance to stand up and tell th...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Tue, 01 May 2007 01:58:00 PST

Chris Fowler: Lance and Jimmy V

Lance took Jimmy V's message and ran with it By Chris Fowler Lance Armstrong was suffering big time. He had collapsed into a hotel bathtub loaded with ice cubes. The tough facade, maintained for the c...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:03:00 PST

150 Miles for Josh

Easter weekend 2007 will be a very special memory for me, but it didn't involve baskets, bunnies, and eggs. Rather, it was all about the bike, New Orleans, and a very special group of people. -...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:22:00 PST

Lance: We Have to be Ruthless!

This article will appear in the Apr 9 issue of Newsweek - solid stuff from the man on the front: We Have to Be Ruthless An iconic survivor challenges the nation to close the gap between what we know a...
Posted by Lance Armstrong Foundation on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:03:00 PST