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Abstract:
"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me,"[1] said Terry Fox as he ran across Canada. Little did the young athlete know that nearly 30 years after uttering these determined words, the world would continue, unflaggingly, to run, walk, cycle, and skate to raise money for cancer research. Ultimately, Terry didn't finish, forced to abandon his "Marathon of Hope" when the cancer that took most of his right leg spread to his lungs. But the heroic amputee had already run a marathon a day-over 3,300 miles-and reached his goal of collecting a dollar for every Canadian to fight cancer. That initial CAD$24 million has ballooned to more than $400 million and keeps on growing thanks to the Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research. First held in 1991, the Run is the world's largest single-day cancer research fundraiser. And the single largest participant country in that event is Cuba.
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