As a kid, he was always enthusiastic about sports, even when he was the worst player on his Grade 8 basketball team. A teacher encouraged him to go out for cross-country running, a sport in which he had little interest. But Fox was determined to be better and please his coach. In his final year at Port Coquitlam secondary school, he shared the athlete of the year award with his friend, Doug Alward.
After that, he went on to study physical education at Simon Fraser University. In , when a pain in Terry's knee got so bad he could barely stand, he went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer. His right leg was amputated about six inches above his knee. He hated the time he spent in hospital and pushed himself to learn to walk again.
His determination had him out playing golf only six weeks after the operation. Later, basketball returned to his life when he was invited to play wheelchair basketball with Rick Hansen.
But Terry never forgot his experience in the hospital. After undergoing months of treatment for cancer, Terry contracted pneumonia in June and went into a coma on 27 June. Flags across the country were flown at half-mast. Terry Fox received many more honours following his death. In June , a monument featuring a 2. In April , the Royal Canadian Mint issued a commemorative one dollar coin to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the Marathon of Hope.
In , Terry Fox was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in the Builder category for his efforts in raising money for cancer research. A bronze statue commemorating the moment Fox dipped his leg in the ocean in St. Since then, fundraising has continued in his name. Millions of people in Canada and around the world participate every year in the Terry Fox Run. Search The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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Thanks for contributing to The Canadian Encyclopedia. With the use of a customized running prothesis, he set out from St. He was forced to stop his Marathon of Hope in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on 1 September , when cancer had invaded his lungs. Terry Fox in his first year as a kinesiology student at Simon Fraser University. Terry demonstrates how his prosthetic leg works.
Terry Fox's mother and father are embraced by his friend Bill Vigars, of the Canadian Cancer Society, as ambulance attendants wheel Terry to the jet for his flight to British Columbia. In , year-old Terry Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer and gave up his right leg to prevent the spread of the disease. After 14 months of training, Terry convinced the Canadian Cancer Society to help sponsor his run across Canada to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Averaging approximately 26 miles per day, Terry continued the Run for days as the country watched with bated breath.
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