How did Stephen Hawking live so long with ALS?
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ALS currently has no known cure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved two drugs that slow down the disease, albeit modestly: riluzole and edaravone. Clinical trials have shown that riluzole extends survival by a few months, while edaravone improves the daily functioning of people with ALS.he has cured by this so he luved
The details Professor Hawking didn't want to ask for are very grim.
The average life expectancy of someone with MND is between two and three years, most people die within five. Professor Hawking lived for more than five decades after he was diagnosed.
But his health was affected significantly within a few years of his diagnosis.
By the late 1960s, he was using a wheelchair to move around and was having trouble writing.
His speech began to deteriorate in the 1970s.
In 1985 he became ill with pneumonia on a trip to CERN in Geneva. To help him breathe again, doctors did a tracheotomy, which meant they had to cut a hole in his neck and place a tube into his windpipe. Professor Hawking irreversibly lost the ability to speak.
From then on he spoke through his computer system — which he operated with his cheek — and had to have around-the-clock care.