The Adventures of Captain Chemo, created by Ben de Garis who died in July 1999 at age 18 after battling Hodgkin's disease, have been turned into an interactive computer game to help cancer patients worldwide. Ben, originally from Sussex England, drew the spiky-haired Captain Chemo cartoon during his treatment as a 13 year old, frustrated that he wasn't able to find books about cancer aimed at children his age.

Last year, the Royal Marsden Hospital, where Ben was treated, with the support of GamePlay.com, established the web site and interactive computer game to breath life into a super hero through the ink of a British boy who will never see comic drawings animated on a computer screen.

The first two episodes of the game are currently available at the Royal Marsden's web site, with Episode 2 about infection having been released in February. Four more episodes await sponsors and conversion from Ben's story lines to cyberspace. Players gain points in the game by answering questions about cancer as they search for the answers, together with maneuvering the chemo craft to shoot and destroy tumors.
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Captain Chemo
courtesy Royal Marsden Hospital