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By Jan Pinnington

In 1977, a young, athletic, teenage Canadian boy changed the world with his heroic efforts and invincible desire to beat osteogenic sarcoma, a form of aggressive bone cancer that started with a malignant tumor in his right leg. At the age of 18, Terry Fox had his leg amputated six inches above the knee in an effort to stop the spread of the disease.

Terry spent a lot of time in the hospital during this period, and his world suddenly opened to the magnitude of suffering and hopelessness of others fighting this dreaded and terrifying disease.