Waterloo, Ont. man with stage 4 cancer qualifies for Boston Marathon [Video]

A Waterloo, Ont. man diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer continues to beat all odds.

“I got the news from the medical team that I had cholangiocarcinoma. That was back in November, which meant I had to start treatment in December,” said 66-year-old Dana Fox.

He wanted to attack the disease head-on so he began chemotherapy.

“[Cholangiocarcinoma] doesn’t have very good survival rates. They told me I wouldn’t make it past October this year,” Fox said.

But he didn’t let the diagnosis weigh him down. Earlier this summer he completed the Ride to Conquer Cancer, all while undergoing cancer treatments.

This past weekend, he took on another challenge – one that many thought would be too much to handle.

“Wouldn’t it be great if we could do another marathon?” he asked himself. “There’s one last race before they qualify for Boston.”

So he signed up for the Georgina Marathon which is 42.195 kilometres long. The race, …