The doctor who helped Lance Armstrong beat cancer remains loyal — even if he doesn’t have a lot of company.
“He’s still a hero — for cancer and for me personally — because of his will and the energy that he gave back to cancer and to cancer progress,” Dr. Craig Nichols, who treated Armstrong’s testicular cancer in 1996, told The Post yesterday.
“No one,” he added, “has fulfilled that obligation like he has.”
Recalling the last time they spoke, Nichols, a Livestrong volunteer, said the legendary bicyclist seemed “subdued.”
But Cindy Schulte, 58, a breast-cancer survivor from Springboro, Ohio, called the doping admission a “black eye” on Armstrong’s legacy — and others online and on Twitter were harsher.
On Armstrong’s Facebook fan page, one user, Matthew Peat, called the cyclist a “scumbag,” and wrote, “There is no redeeming himself for what he did.”
Beth Scheunemann, of Minneapolis, posted: “Note to Lance: You are a liar and a cheat. No apologies necessary.”
And @TheTweetofGod even took a shot at the athlete’s afterlife: “There’s a special place in hell for Lance Armstrong — the scream-fueled stationary bike.”