Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong was diagnosed in October 1996 at 25 with advanced testicular cancer with metastases to the lungs and brain, and was treated with surgery and cisplatin-based chemotherapy at Indiana University. He founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation in 1997, which, as Livestrong, put the word survivorship into common use, funded navigation services and survivorship research, and distributed more than 80 million yellow wristbands from 2004. His seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005 were stripped in 2012 after the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation, and he admitted doping in 2013 and left the foundation's board. Livestrong continues under its own name. His story is included here because the survivorship movement it started outlived the sporting fraud, and because the field should remember both.