Dr. Raksha Jain (VIDEO)
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- Patients with cystic fibrosis are born with the illness based on genes they inherit from their family members. It used to be, years ago, that it was really an illness of pediatrics, because patients did not survive to make it to adulthood. In fact, many of our patients, when they were born were actually, especially our 30 and 40 year-old patients, were told they would never make it past high school, 'cause that was the life expectancy when our patients were born. With the new therapies and with great care, patients are living longer and healthier lives and here they are now, in their 30s, 40s plus, getting married, going to graduate school, having children and I think a lot of that was their hope, their families' hope and their hard work.
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