Michael J. Fox has revealed that when he announced his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 1998, his doctors predicted that he would retain his full abilities for at least another ten years before regressing.
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The 62-year-old star told People magazine that doctors “were hoping Fox would still be able to function for at least 10 years and perhaps even into old age.” However, 26 years later, he believes it was his personal experience with the disease that helped him overcome the disease.
“What I believed then and what I believe today, I probably can't say in the same words, is that you can do anything. Everything,” the star said. Back to the future. “You don't have to follow other people's expectations of what life will be like. Life will be what you make of it.”
In 2023, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which he launched in 2000, made a breakthrough in disease research and discovered a biomarker that could indicate whether a person had Parkinson's disease before symptoms did not appear.
“It was one of the few times I cried because of what we were doing. We wanted to find a way to diagnose the disease before it started, because then we could treat it and you would never get it. It was a big step forward — and a big moment,” Michael J. Fox said. .
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