Terry Fox was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated 6 inches above the knee in 1977. While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope – covering 3,339 miles before having to stop because of the cancer moving to his lungs. Runs for Terry have garnered over 400 million dollars towards cancer research worldwide to date.