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Terry Fox

1958 – 1981

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Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete and cancer-research activist who in 1980, after losing his right leg to osteosarcoma, set out on a cross-Canada "Marathon of Hope" run, completing 5,373 kilometres in 143 consecutive days before being forced to stop when the cancer spread to his lungs. He died nine months later at age 22, but the annual Terry Fox Run he inspired has since raised more than C$850 million for cancer research and is considered the world's largest one-day cancer-research fundraiser. He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1980, the youngest recipient of the country's highest civilian honor at the time.