But if I pray for my nephew to be the one, I am in
>effect praying that the other 99 are not.
>
No, you are not. You would be praying to change
the survival rate from 1% to 1.001%
But that would be asking for a miracle for lymphoma to somehow change spontaneously (not a remission per see, that is guarenteed to occur). I can pray for a man-made change in the stats (i.e. a new treatment)
