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In 1976, Terry developed osteogenic sarcoma, a type of bone cancer. After seeing all the suffering cancer caused, he was inspired to raise money for cancer research. So he ran to raise money in hopes of eradicating the disease.

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The marathon of hope meant alot to terry fox because the marathon of hope wanted to stop cancer and so did terry fox and every body

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What kept terry fox motivated was that he was doing this for the kids that had bone cancer to help the world find a solution for cancer terry could see his pain but not others

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