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Embracing the Future: Aging with CF - Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH; CF and Colon Cancer: My Lived Experience - Anna Payne
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Dr. Ahmet Uluer, a medicine and pediatric trained pulmonologist and Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at the combined Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, gives an overview of the impact of and risk associated with aging for people with CF, including GI cancers, complications associated with diabetes, hypertension, bone disease, hearing loss, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, among others.
Anna Payne, a 36 year-old woman living with CF and colon cancer, shares the real-life impact that colon cancer has on people and what it is like to live with two diseases. Diagnosed at 34 - well before the recommended screening age of 40 – she is now seeking to educate others about the elevated risk that CF patients and carriers have of developing colon cancer. This joint presentation was part of CFRI's 36th National CF Education Conference.
CFRI's 36th National CF Education Conference was sponsored by Viatris, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sciences, Chiesi USA, AbbVie, Genentech, and the Boomer Esiason Foundation.
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