How to Use cystic fibrosis in a Sentence

cystic fibrosis

noun

• The life span for someone with cystic fibrosis used to be about 30 years.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
• Five Feet Apart, a film about two teens with cystic fibrosis.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 20 Dec. 2022
• Two of my friends had daughters who died of cystic fibrosis in their 20s.
  — Abby Alten Schwartz, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• The two of them play cystic fibrosis patients who have to stay six feet apart from each other at all times.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2019
• Your lab co-discovered the cystic fibrosis gene in 1989 amid hopes a cure would come soon.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 31 Oct. 2022
• His son, Bobby, was born with cystic fibrosis and will be a senior at Dedham High School in the fall.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• All proceeds will go to the Lost Lake fundraiser in support of those with cystic fibrosis.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
• But advances in the treatment of the disease have led cystic fibrosis patients to live decades longer.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• Charles Michael Duke, 23, was born with cystic fibrosis and was put on the transplant list after his lungs collapsed on stage.
  — Fox News, 7 June 2018
• Decades ago, most cystic fibrosis sufferers died by the age of 5.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• Pills that wrench decades of life from a cancer death sentence or ease the breathing of patients with cystic fibrosis.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
• A couple in Texas was told not to wear masks when visiting a restaurant with a four-year-old son who has cystic fibrosis.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• For most of his life, he was hospitalized twice a year as a result of his cystic fibrosis.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 June 2022
• Even for the most well-researched, monogenic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, there are vast gaps in our knowledge.
  — John Stuelpnagel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2020
• The pastor turned full-time artist buys glitter by the pound to illustrate his battle with cystic fibrosis.
  — Cara Anthony, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• Haley plays 17-year-old Stella who has cystic fibrosis, a condition that means the body produces a thick mucus that can block air to the lungs.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 5 Mar. 2020
• Haley plays 17-year-old Stella who has cystic fibrosis, a condition that means the body produces thick mucus that can block air to the lungs.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
• Andy Lipman, a 47-year-old Sandy Springs resident who has cystic fibrosis, is among them.
  — Johnny Edwards, ajc, 13 Aug. 2021
• During last two weeks of May each grade level held their own cystic fibrosis walk around the track and baseball diamond.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2021
• There are no approved drugs that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis aside from the four produced by Vertex.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• Of course, there’s a catch — Will and Stella are patients being treated for cystic fibrosis at the same hospital.
  — Hanna Lustig, Teen Vogue, 31 May 2018
• Both Cole and Haley play cystic fibrosis patients who fall in love while treated at the same hospital.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 17 June 2018
• There were some openly disabled artists on the scene, like Liz Young, who used a wheelchair, and Bob Flanagan, a performance artist who had cystic fibrosis.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
• Does somebody in my family have cystic fibrosis or something else or something that could hurt the lungs?
  — Fox News, 18 June 2020
• The lab of David Lieu has already used this method to fix the genetic glitches that cause sickle-cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, and Tay-Sachs disease.
  — Wired, 21 Oct. 2019
• McIntosh even pointed out a time when Dr. Andersen treated a boy with cystic fibrosis who happened to be the grandson of a wealthy donor.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2021
• Kelly, 35, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an infant and has never been healthy enough to work full time.
  — Liz Szabo, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• In a 2016 study, researchers made mini-guts from cell samples from patients with cystic fibrosis and then used the organoids to predict which patients would respond to new drugs.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• After a lifetime with cystic fibrosis, and 13 years battling an unconquerable infection, Mallory’s body could take no more.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
• Vertex is a global biotech firm that has grown by delivering on its purpose to provide novel treatments in specialty disease areas such as cystic fibrosis, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and acute pain.
  — Paul Blase paul Leinwand, Harvard Business Review, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024