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Yes, because he had cancer in his leg. It had to be amputated. Then He ran a marathon across Canada, but before he could finnish the cancer spread to his lungs and he died.
1980
Terry had his leg amputated in 1977.
It was the Marathon of Hope, well the start anyway.
He was 10 years old.
April 12th, 1980
he started in st. john's
No he wouldn't have but he would have lived longer but he believed he could do it and he didn't want to die from running but he did. The cancer terry had, he might not have survived from it because there was a 50% survival rate.
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The start of the Marathon of Hope was on April 12, 1980 in St. John's, Newfoundland. This was the date Terry Fox dips his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean as the mark of the start of the Marathon of Hope.
His right leg was amputated in 1977 after he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer)
running the new york marathon