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À 21 ans, Terry Fox a entrepris son Marathon de l’espoir afin de recueillir des fonds pour la recherche contre le cancer.Il a couru pendant 143 jours, traversant les provinces de l’Atlantique, le Québec et l’Ontario, avant que le cancer des os qui l’avait privé d’une partie de sa jambe droite resurgisse et le force à s’arrêter près de Thunder Bay. Il est mort le 28 juin 1981, un mois avant son 23e anniversaire.

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At 21, Terry Fox set out on his Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.He ran for 143 days, through the Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario, before the bone cancer that had taken part of his right leg returned and forced him to stop near Thunder Bay. He died on June 28,1981, a month before his 23rd birthday.


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