Bas van der Voort

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name = Bas van der Voort

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birth_name = Sebastiaan Nicolaas Wilhelmus van der Voort
birth_date = 23 november 1991
birth_place = The Netherlands
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known_for = Surving cancer
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occupation = Pupil
home_town = Maren-Kessel
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website = http://www.basvandervoort.nl
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Bas van der Voort (Sebastiaan Nicolaas Wilhelmus van der Voort) is a young Dutch cancer survivor, who lost his right leg to an osteosarcoma. He tells his story [ [http://www.thuisinhetnieuws.nl/artikel/1906/bas-van-der-voort-fietst-mee-in-ketting-van-ballonnen.html Newspaper article] nl icon Retrieved on May 18 2008] to give hope to people with cancer and to help in sponsor events for other patients.

Life

Bas lives in Maren-Kessel in the town Lith. He is a gymnasium student at the [http://www.maaslandcollege.nl/home/ Maaslandcollege] in Oss.

The cancer

In 2003 Bas broke his right leg. He recovered, but still had lots of pain in his right leg. There came a time of lots and lots of different hospital visits, to find out what it could be. The diagnosis: Osteosarcoma on the right femur. Bas was treated with chemotherapy and a lot of operations, so he could keep his right leg.

Then the next development came. The physicians saw a new tumor in his right leg. This time the only way to survive was the amputation of the whole right leg and after the amputation again 9 chemo's. He learned to live with one leg and he tried to do everything what a person with 2 legs can do.

But in 2007 cancer came back in Bas' left lung. After operating a little part of the left lung, he still has every week a x-ray of his lung and every 3 months a lung- and bonescan.

And after all of this he now found a new passion: wheelchair basketball, he plays now a the "Rolstoelbasketball Achilles Flames" team. [ [http://www.flames.nu/ Rolstoelbasketball Achilles Flames] Team 2]

In the media

He tells his story to newspapers [ [http://www.doelbewust.net/nieuws.php?id=63 Newspaper article] nl icon (Retrieved on May 19 2008)] , at radio stations and in television shows like "Je zal het maar hebben" (It could've been you) [ [http://player.omroep.nl/?aflid=7029327 "Je zal het maar hebben" show] nl icon (Retrieved May 19 2008)] from the TV station BNN. The Dutch TV station AVRO featured another programme called "Vinger aan de pols".

Bas has also done photo shoots with Henk van Kooten and Erik Hijweege.

References

External link

* [http://basvandervoort.nl Homepage] with pictures