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Brittle Bone Disease Campaigner Alec Cabacungan Says I ll Never Be Down
On 3/15/21 at 7:28 AM EDT
Alec Cabacungan, an 18-year-old student and sports fan known for appearing in commercials for the Shriners Children s Hospital network, has spoken out about his journey and living with brittle bone disease.
Brittle bone disease is also known as osteogenesis imperfecta, or OI. Cabacungan was admitted to one of the Shriners hospitals with the disease as a child. At age 12, he appeared in a commercial for the hospital network that touched many and helped raise funds through public donations.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace described Cabacungan as the face of Shriners. Speaking to the broadcaster on March 14, Cabacungan said: All of a sudden, people were coming up to me, I m like 12 at the time, I was panicking, I was like who are all these people, how do they know me?
Brittle bone disease, a disorder leading to a lack of collagen in the bones, was little known in the 1930s when Margaret Wilson was born with it. Classified in varying degrees of severity, from bones