Editing Terry Fox (section)

==Early life and cancer==

Terrance Stanley Fox was born on July 28, 1958, in [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, to Rolland and [[Betty Fox]]. Rolland was a switchman for the [[Canadian National Railway]].<ref name="MtlGazette42880">{{cite news|last=Scrivener|first=Leslie|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kBQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1162,4206618|title=Terry's running for the cancer society|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=April 28, 1980|accessdate=February 25, 2010|page=21}}</ref> Fox spent his childhood in the [[Transcona]] suburb of Winnipeg, where he attended [[River East Transcona School Division|Wayoata Elementary School]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Manitobans remember Terry Fox|publisher=CBC News|date=April 13, 2005|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitobans-remember-terry-fox-1.562321}}</ref> Fox had an elder brother, Fred, a younger brother, Darrell, and a younger sister, Judith.<ref name="Greatest Canadian">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/fox-terry.html|title=The Greatest Canadian: Terry Fox|publisher=CBC|accessdate=February 25, 2010| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704121456/http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/fox-terry.html|archivedate=July 4, 2008}}</ref> Fox's maternal grandmother is [[Métis]] and Fox's younger brother Darrell has official Métis status.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bailey|first1=Ian|title=A marathon of genealogy|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/terry-fox-was-metis-fox-family-explores-and-claims-metisheritage/article37517004/|accessdate=January 7, 2018|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=January 6, 2017}}</ref>

His family moved to [[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey]] in [[British Columbia]] in 1966, then settled in [[Port Coquitlam]] in 1968.<ref name="Greatest Canadian"/> He had doting parents,<ref name="Scrivener13">Scrivener, 2000, pp. 13–14.</ref> and his father recalled that Fox was extremely competitive.<ref name="Inwood">{{cite news|first=Damian|last=Inwood|title=Terry Fox: 25 years; Celebrating his dream: a 12-page special section honouring the 25th Annual Terry Fox Run|newspaper=Vancouver Province |date=September 18, 2005}}</ref> Fox attempted to join his school's basketball team, though struggled because of his height. His coach suggested that Fox try cross-country running, which Fox did in order to impress his coach.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terryfox.org/TerryFox/The_Early_Years.html |title=Terry Fox Foundation announces new Board of Directors – The Terry Fox Foundation |website=Terryfox.org |accessdate=March 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404104815/http://www.terryfox.org/TerryFox/The_Early_Years.html |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Rod Mickleburgh |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/remembering-terry-fox/article1116917/ |title=Remembering Terry Fox |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date= |accessdate=March 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 18.</ref> Fox continued to improve on his basketball skills, and in grade 12 he won his high school's athlete of the year award.<ref name="Greatest Canadian"/> Fox was unsure whether he wanted to go to university, but Fox's mother convinced him to enrol at [[Simon Fraser University]]. He studied [[kinesiology]] with the intention of becoming a physical education teacher.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 23.</ref> He was also a member of the junior varsity basketball team.<ref name="Greatest Canadian"/>
[[File:Terry-Fox-prosthetic-leg.jpg|thumb|Fox's favourite prosthetic leg used during his Marathon of Hope, on display at the [[Canadian Museum of History]]|alt=a prosthetic leg in a display case]]

On November 12, 1976, Fox was driving to the family home in Port Coquitlam when he was distracted by nearby bridge construction and crashed into the back of a pickup truck. Fox injured his right knee in the crash and felt pain in December, but chose to ignore it until the end of basketball season.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 25.</ref> By March 1977, the pain had intensified and he went to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with [[osteosarcoma]], a form of cancer that often starts near the knees.<ref name="Greatest Canadian"/> Fox believed his car accident weakened his knee and left it vulnerable to the disease, though his doctors argued there was no connection.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 27.</ref> He was told that his leg had to be amputated, he would require [[chemotherapy]] treatment, and that recent medical advances meant he had a 50-per cent chance of survival. Fox learned that two years before, the figure would have been only 15 per cent; the improvement in survival rates impressed on him the value of cancer research.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 30.</ref> With the help of an artificial leg, Fox was walking three weeks after the amputation.<ref name="Greatest Canadian" /> Doctors were impressed with Fox's positive outlook, saying it contributed to his rapid recovery.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 35.</ref> Fox endured sixteen months of chemotherapy and found the time he spent in the British Columbia Cancer Control Agency facility difficult as he watched fellow cancer patients suffer and die from the disease.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, pp. 37–38.</ref> 

In the summer of 1977, [[Rick Hansen]], working with the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, invited Fox to try out for his [[wheelchair basketball]] team.<ref>{{cite news|last=Edwards |first=Peter|title=Man in Motion set to honour pal Terry Fox|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=January 3, 1987|page=A13}}</ref> Less than two months after learning how to play the sport, Fox was named a member of the team for the national championship in [[Edmonton|Edmonton, Alberta]].<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 45.</ref> He won three national titles with the team,<ref name="Greatest Canadian"/> and was named an all-star by the North American Wheelchair Basketball Association in 1980.<ref>Scrivener, 2000, p. 47.</ref>