In the 1970s, former high school athlete and kinesiology student Terry Fox was told he had only a 50 percent chance of surviving osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that claimed his left leg. Fox soon took to wheelchair basketball, eventually winning the Canadian national championship. Next, he set his sights on running. Wanting to bring more attention to and raise money for cancer research, Fox trained for 14 months for a long-distance Marathon of Hope, spanning across Canada. Initially met with skepticism from his family and the Canadian Cancer Society, Fox…
