He is not above the cycling law because he had cancer, he is above it because he is a superstar of the sport. Love him or hate him he is huge in cycling. He gets away with things because he is a superstar. It is not because of cancer or because it is cycling. Look at all US sports, superstars get calls all the time. Kobe and Lebron are better then most but touching them with the same amount of force they just touched you equals a foul when it was perfectly fine the other way around. At least at the end of the day UCI is "doing something" about it. The NBA just wants you to buy another ticket.