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“She had to move to Los Angeles to live with my parents because she needed so much help,” Saget said. Drugs including prednisone and cortisone were used to treat her, he said, but it only addressed her symptoms.
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Saget shared that his sister was 44 and a Philadelphia-area teacher when she was first diagnosed.
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“Little did I know that just a few years later, my sister would be diagnosed with the disease.” “I said yes and hosted the event, which starred Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, and others.” he said.
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Saget told NIH Medline Plus Magazine in 2019 that years before he “got a call from someone I did not know asking me to host a comedy fundraiser for a disease I knew very little about.” The star actually first became involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) prior to his sister’s diagnosis with the chronic disease, which can lead to a hardening and tightening of connective tissue and skin. But it was the death of his beloved sister Gay following a battle with the autoimmune disease scleroderma which transformed him into an avid advocate for raising money to find a cure.