Explainer: what is cystic fibrosis and how is it treated?
- Written by Martin Donnelley, Affiliate Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) affects around 3,000 people in Australia and 70,000 worldwide. It’s an inherited disease caused by a mutation in a single gene called CFTR.
This gene defect means the protein it produces, also called CFTR, is...