The Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the UK's most common life-threatening inherited disease which affects over 8,000 people in the UK alone.

Around 1 in 25 people in the UK carry the faulty gene, that’s over two million people.

Each week five babies are born with CF and three young lives are lost to CF.

CF affects a number of internal organs, especially the lungs and digestive system, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus resulting in infections and inflammation making it hard to breathe and digest food.

There is currently no cure for Cystic Fibrosis.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust funds research to find an effective treatment for CF through gene therapy.

Through research, better understanding and treatment of CF, life expectancy is increasing. When the CF Trust was founded in 1964 life expectancy was just five years, now around half of the CF population can expect to live over 35 years. 

The Trust also supports specialist trained CF nurses and physiotherapists who can help CF patients live at home. It can lend CF patients specialised equipment, and it also provides support for the families of CF sufferers.

Cystic Fibrosis Trust UK