Waterloo, Ont. man diagnosed with rare form of cancer gearing up for Ride to Conquer Cancer [Video]

A Waterloo, Ont. man is set to be one of the thousands of participants at this weekend’s Ride to Conquer Cancer in Toronto, despite recently undergoing treatment for a rare form of cancer.

Dana Fox is currently buckling up for the last few days of his training but the starting line seemed out of reach just a few months ago.

He used to be able to run long distances with ease, so when something felt off last summer it raised some red flags for the 66-year-old.

“My fingers started to tingle on the very ends,” Fox explained.

He quickly went in to see his doctor and in no time, there was a diagnosis.

“They said ‘yeah, you’ve got cholangiocarcinoma,” recalled Fox.

It’s an aggressive cancer that forms in the body’s slender tubes, which carries digestive fluid bile.

It took its toll too. Fox began to lose weight rapidly and doctors were worried.

“If I look at the last …