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Lance Armstrong sets goal for 2017 to return to cancer fight

Lance Armstrong has a message for the cancer-fighting community: He wants back in.

Armstrong, 45, listed rejoining the cancer fight as a difference-maker as a top goal for the next year.

The disgraced cyclist was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996 and started the Lance Armstrong Foundation (later changed to Livestrong) in 1997.

He won a record seven straight Tour de France titles from 1999 through 2005, but in 2012 was banned for life and stripped of those titles for doping. His ties with Livestrong were also severed in 2012.

“I think I know how to effect change.