1976165438+1October 12, 18-year-old Terry had an accident, but he was fine at that time, only feeling pain in his throat and right knee. After 1977, he felt a sharp pain in his right knee and was later diagnosed as osteosarcoma. Three days later, Fox thought that the injury caused by the 1976 accident weakened his knee and made him more susceptible to cancer, although his doctor disagreed with him.

1980 April 12, at the age of 2/kloc-0, he put on his right leg prosthesis and running shoes and started the "Hope Marathon" running across Canada, with the aim of calling on everyone to donate one yuan for cancer research. Every day, he runs about 28 miles through towns in Canada and tells people his story and the situation of cancer patients. Although few people paid attention to terry fox and his charity activities at the beginning of the charity long-distance running, gradually, the young man's courage and will touched the whole Canada, and people donated money to help each other.

September 1980, 1, he had to stop because cancer cells had spread rapidly to the lungs. Terry fox ran for 143 days, during which he only had one day off, traveled 3,339 miles (5,300 kilometers), replaced nine artificial limbs, and raised a huge sum of 24 million Canadian dollars.

1981On June 28th, Terry died at the age of 22, but his indomitable spirit did not leave. His younger brother used the money he raised to set up the "terry fox Foundation" to help all cancer patients and devote himself to the research of cancer medicine.

1981September 13. More than 300,000 Canadians participated in the first terry fox Volunteer Run in more than 700 places, and * * * raised 3.2 million Canadian dollars. Since then, the "Hope Marathon" has gradually become the largest fund-raising activity for cancer research in the world.