Bas van der Voort

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Bas van der Voort

Bas van der Voort
Born Sebastiaan Nicolaas Wilhelmus van der Voort
23 november 1991
The Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Occupation Pupil
Home town Maren-Kessel
Known for Surving cancer
Religious beliefs evangelic church
Website
http://www.basvandervoort.nl

Bas van der Voort (Sebastiaan Nicolaas Wilhelmus van der Voort) is young dutch cancer surviror, who lost his right leg to an osteosarcoma. He tells his story [1] to give hope to people with cancer and to help in sponsor events for other patients.

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[edit] Life

Bas lives in Maren-Kessel in the town Lith. He is a gymnasium student at the Maaslandcollege in Oss.

[edit] 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 rightleg.

Then the next developement 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: weelchair basketbal, he plays now a the Rolstoelbasketball Achilles Flames team. [2]

[edit] In the media

He tells his story to newspapers [3] , at radio stations and in television shows like Je zal het maar hebben (It could've been you) [4] from the TV station BNN. The Dutch TV station AVRO featured another programme called Vinger aan de pols.

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Newspaper article (Dutch) Retrieved on May 18, 2008
  2. ^ Rolstoelbasketball Achilles Flames Team 2
  3. ^ Newspaper article (Dutch) (Retrieved on May 19, 2008)
  4. ^ Je zal het maar hebben show (Dutch) (Retrieved May 19, 2008)

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