As a competition, what is it that the Lance Armstrong Foundation is trying to accomplish with cancer?
Well, we can definitely increase awareness. Just by me getting out and talking about it increases awareness. Unfortunately, it’s bad news — whether it’s Peter Jennings, Dana Reeve, Sheryl Crow, Ann Richards, or anyone who makes the news with regard to cancer — that brings awareness to the disease. But the news comes and goes so quickly. In less than a month you had Sheryl and Ann Richards diagnosed, and the death of Dana. And everyone said, “Oh, my God, we’re all going to get cancer.” And, boom, a week later it’s gone. So I can get out and keep it in the spotlight. Is the eradication of cancer the goal, or the diminution of it, or what? Or the funding. We have to work on the process. The process is broken in this country. I think, on an overall basis, that cancer is not a priority, and it’s huge. As our population gets older and older it will be the number one killer. The odds are startling. One out of two men, one out of three women. Yet at the same time, without being political, we s
