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LIVESTRONG.com dared you to share your story of how you changed your life or the life of someone else. Hundreds accepted the LIVESTRONG.com Dare To Challenge and shared their inspiring videos with LIVESTRONG.com and YouTube communities.

Now, it’s down to the 10 finalists, and it’s up to you to choose the winner. It’s your chance to tell the world, which finalist’s story inspired you.

Visit livestrong.com, go to www.livestrong.com/contest/youtube-share-your-story/ to vote for your favorite by Sep 21, 2008. You can vote once a day, so make it count. The winner will be announced on Sep 23, 2008.

  • Cezar

    hi,
    I was wondering if it is possible to contact Mr. Armstrong regarding some the diagnosis he received and his approach on it. I am a 20 year old college student and I am afraid I might have something similar to him. I went to get a check up, but I cannot really afford another one and to get an ultrasound so I wanted to know if it was possible to get in touch with some free Clinics in the Chicago area.Hope to hear from you soon and thank you so much for your support.

  • http://livestrong Rosann Dionese

    This weekend we were in Snowmass, Colorado, where Lance armstrong was riding in the 12 Hours of Snowmass. Our 10 year old grandson thinks that Lance Armstrong is a fabulous athlete and proved what a great person he is too. After the race, my husband grabbed Lance by the shirt and asked him to sign our grandson’s new bike. Lance could have easily ignored the “old man” bothering him, but instead reached around and signed the bicycle. My grandson’s comment after looking at the signature for 10 minutes was “Someone could have given me a million dollars and it wouldn’t have made me this happy”. We want to thank Lance for being such a good example to the young people of today. He is not only a top quality athlete, but a top quality person. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making our grandson’s 10th birthday one he will never forget.

  • http://livestrong.org Brooke McMillan (LAF Staff)

    Cezar,

    Please call our LIVESTRONG SurvivorCare Program ASAP: 1-866-235-7205. We would like to help you. Call the number and set up a time with a social worker. The social worker can help you locate local resources. They are open 9-5 EST. If you get this email after hours, please leave a message. They will call you back.

  • sana

    i just wanted to wish lance armstrong happy birthday ! His tale is extraordinarily inspiring to both cancer and non-cancer patients .I wish I could write to him but couldn’t find any apt e-mail address where he would be assessable!please accept my wishes.

    may you live a long life sir !

  • didy (belgium)

    happy birthday lance!
    today it’s “day against cancer” in belgium. we were asked to wear a yellow ribbon on this day (ofcourse this dutch girl wears the yellow wristband) and ask awareness for smokefree houses and cars for kids. could they have picked a better day?
    let’s keep on fighting the beast……..

  • zlatko

    Happy birthday Lance!!!

  • Sean Newman

    Lance,

    Happy birthday. I wass diagnosed with a T1 seminoma in the left testicle two weeks before Christmas last year. Needless to say I was given your book for christmas and it helped me face chemo in January 2008. It has now been 9 months and my bloods are still clear. can’t wait to see you ride again in the Tour de France.

    Regards

    Sean

  • Pat Wolfenbarger

    Happy Birthday,
    Lance.
    I am pleased to hear you have decided to do the Tour in 2009. I will cheer you on in your quest, and support you in the fight against cancer.
    I, too, am a cancer survivor; and am supporting a relative (stomach cancer), and two close friends (breast cancer) in their fight against this insidious disease.
    I am proud to be associated with LAF, and your efforts to fund its demise. Good luck in both of these endeavors!

    Pat Wolfenbarger
    Clovis, CA

    • Sue Hedman

      I’m sorry to hear about your cancer, Patrick. Hoped to bump in to you sometime, but it has been 30 years probably. Still in Fresno…Would love to hear from you. We support LAF also, because of Lance’s influence. Sue Ruminer Hedman

  • http://journals.aol.com/anne91547/anne-mcginnis-breens-articles/ Anne Breen

    Happy Birthday Lance and best wishes for your 38th year. I hope it will be grand, and keep on getting better. I will be in Austin visiting again the end of October. I hope you will get all the media attention on cancer treament and the unmet needs of longterm bt survivors and the social stigma attached especially to brain cancer survivors next week at the CGI meeting before the US elections. I am very discouraged about both Senators positions on the cancer health care needs of ordinary people all across America. Did you see the tiny news story about the dozen new brain tumor patients in Cameron Missouri in seven months? The state government officials and Missouri state cancer registry only have released vague statements about collected data for 2004, soil and water testing etc OMG the most current reliable info available is five years old and I have not found any of them specifically documented in the papers yet after three months. This sudden cluster of primary brain tumors of the central nervous system ought to be a national election topic, and national news, one dear school teacher died of complication this summer, but its not a big story cuz she is only an ordinary person, and what about Kathi Goertzen in seattle? she is scheduled for her fourth brain surgery in ten years plus two or three brain radiation treatments for a meningioma, just an ordinary low grade brain tumor like mine, And what is either of our new leaders proposing to do about low grade abnormal cell growth in the brains of some of the sweetest nicest ordinary people in the country, probably NOTHING!
    SHAME ON THEM!
    KOKO = Keep on keepin on!

    Lance Thank YOU so much from the bottom of my heart for all you continue to do for us longterm bt survivors.
    GBYAY ANNE BREEN

  • Abby DiPietro

    LAF Staff,

    My husband was 32years old when he died of metastatic testicular cancer on July 11, 2008. He was diagnosed in Aug 2007. He was treated at university hospitals in Philadelphia. We also traveled to Indiana University hosp. and Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. Needless to say my husbands condition was beyond cure. When he was diagnesed he had already had brain and lung mets. His HCG was over 900,000 when he was initially hospitalized in 2007.
    Why is this the case? Why did and athletic man, a karate instructor push through pain and contribute it to a pulled muscle, a hernia, and migranes. When he was really experiencing a shortness of breath due to lung mets. Pain in his testicles due to a tumor, and headaches due to brain mets.
    Why was my husband treated by a famiy doctor for “migranes” and “high blood pressure”. The so called migranes were 8-12 tumors in his brain and the high blood pressure was due to the stress his body was under due to the CANCER.
    Where is the cancer prevention, screening and education for this target population. Testicular cancer targets young men who are at an age where they are far from questioning their own mortality. They are not educated enough about the signs, and symptoms. In my experience even family physicians are not examining their patients testicles to rule out or screen for cancer. Lad work including a yearly hcg could also be a part of a yearly routine screening or physical for men in this age range.
    So again, where is the education, and the publicity for testicular cancer. In my opinion it is lacking. Both among professionls who may see these young men in the first line of treatment (prior to diagnosis), and education and awareness is lacking among this target population. If this were different my husband may have had a better chance of survival.
    I would be interested in being part of an organiztion or committee to promte this education and awareness. I think my husbands story can help others. In my husbands memory many contributions were made to LAF. I also had a small team participate in the Phila livestrong challenge.

    Sincerely
    Abby DiPietro
    Phila, Pa