What a miserable, humorless world you must live in.  Much of my own life has been shaped by cancer and other disease and I have little use or sympathy for those who use their afflictions to bully the rest of the world into genuflecting before their afflictions.  If you were offended by this rather benign cartoon then I would have to assume that you are offended by just about everything.  Life is short and miserable enough without looking for reasons to be offended.  There are so many positive ways that you could be expending your energy in support of those with cancer.   why waste your time being a grouch?

Too sensitive.

I am sorry to hear about your terrible experience, Mary Beth. It doesn't appear at all to me that the cartoon or the cartoonist was poking fun at cancer or cancer remission: it was clearly poking fun at Lance Armstrong himself, who seems to have set aside all ethical considerations starting many years ago and continued the charade unabated, even while the truth was starting to come out. He also went to great lengths, it appears, to intimidate others into staying silent and that adds up to making him a despicably self-serving person who will use ANY excuse and ANY justification for behaving amorally. The cartoon seems to be suggesting that Armstrong has so gone beyond even basic morality that we might even conceive that his finally "telling the truth" is in some way self-serving, that Armstrong may have ulterior motives in doing so, and that this latest from him likely is done in pursuit of a purpose that will benefit him. The cartoon thus suggests that Armstrong would stoop as low as using his cancer to justify his continuing moral lapses.