. >> so you are dealing with this very thing you have early on set alzheimer's disease and new are in your early 50's a. >> i have actually just turn 57 but i received my diagnosis when i turned 53 years of age. the experience, it took a long time to have the diagnosis come around from my doctors. it was challenging because they, my part inner, ron went with me to all of the doctor's appointments and we just struggled because i had a stroke in 2010 that caused my initial issues and then in 2012, my diagnosis was finally determined... >> does a stroke cause alzheimer's disease, does it trigger it. >> a a stroke can increase once risk for developing a type of dementia. quite a few, but it does increase ones risk. >> do you think it was because you were younger and a lot of people think when it comes to alzheimer's maybe later in life and that was reason it took so licensing to diagnosis this. >> yes, i do believe that because i believe a lot of doctors don't want to believe that someone my age is dealing with these issues and they want to, even myself, they wanted to excuse the the forgetfulness or the

with dementia and alzheimer's disease, we don't know a ton about the basic biology of the decease. we need to learn more about that before going after a new therapy. >> why s the pharmaceutical industry interested ape solution to this problem given that the industry is often accused of being merely driven by profits when it comes to diseases that affect developing economies and like ebola, like malaria, for instance, these are criticisms that are regularly raised at pharmaceutical industries, so why not someone that affects everyone particularly first world. >> there are commitments on the parts of certain companies working in this area. if there were a breakthrough and new therapy developed it would be an opportunity for a huge market but we have seen that we need to understand more of the science itself. we need to understand what the biological problem is before we can actually fix it. we need to be investing earlier in the process and it also takes about 15 years to develop a new therapy and conservatively costs a billion dollars. we've seen a significant amount of failures in the always i'mers disease phase, over 100 of them from 1998-2012. some are s

s. actually improving. there is more and more optimism to this. again, the effect on those around you anna's point, with the other film, the affect on those around you is huge for alzheimer'slem. >> you have to live in the world with them in many cases. other movie fault in our stars not nominated 16-year-old cancer patient. big hit last summer. i want to get your thoughts on that movie as we roll a clip on that as well, doctor. >> that one is not as accurate, anna because it does show the grouping of cancer survivors how they work together to try to help each other. these two teens are incredible with the love that they share and the community that they share. but it doesn't show all the expense involved with cancer and how hard it is to make doctor's visits and pay your bills. that's missing in this situation. pediatric cancer the outcomes are. better than is shown in this film. so again, if a young person has cancer especially these days the treatments actually working. the bone cancer portrayed in the film is over 90% cure rate. >> dr. seagull we have totart leave it here. more "fox & friends" in aonal few minutes. now? can i at least put my shoes on? if your bladder i