Cystic Fibrosis Question: In 1950s (And Before) Life Expentcancy Was Only About 1 Year,?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at
4:17 pm
Mei asked:
whereas today it is currently 38.4, and rapidly extending. So life expectency is 38 times more in about 50 years.
In which years was the biggest jump in life expentancy and what medical development was primarly the cause of this jump?
What i mean is, was there some treatment that was invented that all of sudden made L.E. for CF 10 times what it was, and when did this happen?
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I think medically Pulmozyme was the start of the L.E. jumps. cff has a timeline if you want to see what was established when…
I know when pulmozyme first came out I went from doing IV antibiotics 2-3 times a year to going 2 years Healthy without ANY Antibiotics.
Well in 1959 the median age of survival was 6 months.
By 1962 it had jumped to 10 years (30 CF care centers were now in place, and sweat tests could now diagnose CF).
In 1968 it went to 14 years (after use of iv drugs and more specialized CF care centers)
In 1977 it went to 20 years (weight gain improvements being made).
In the 80′s researchers introduced a new acid resistant enzymes. This also helped with weight gain and overall health.
In 2005 it jumped to almost 37 years (Pulmozyme approved in 1994, TOBI in 1997)
If you really want to know more about CF’s life expectancy you should probably look at their patient Registry files. They began this project to track CF patients and get a better handle on what actual/projected life expectancies were over the last 40 years. I am including the link.