Eric Dane Reveals He's Part of Research Study for ALS Battle
Eric Dane is willing to do whatever he can to help battle his ALS.
“I’m fighting as much as I can. There’s so much about it that’s out of my control,” he said in an ABC News interview.
His doctor, Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, joined him for the interview.
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“That’s what I got from Merit when I met her … there was a sense of hope I didn’t get from other doctors that I met with,” he said, adding other doctors seemed to only be there “there to … monitor my decline…and that’s not very helpful.”
Dr. Cudkowicz said about risk factors for the disease, “We worry about head trauma because we do see ALS more common in people in certain sports like football or soccer. We worry about pesticides as well. Being in the military is a risk factor. Those are the ones we know about, but there’s many more we don’t know about.”
“There’s people all over the world working on this. Between artificial intelligence and other imaging technology, that’s what gets me excited, and that’s all coming in the next, I think, you know, one to two years, if not, you know, faster,” she said.
He then shared that he’s currently in a research study to help with his symptoms, and undergoing general symptom management as well.
Eric said, “I will fly to Germany and eat the head off a rattlesnake if [doctors] told me that that would help. I’ll assume the risk.”
Eric previously revealed his first symptom before his diagnosis.