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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the lifespan of cystic fibrosis patients is will increase 75 percent by 2015. Although the average survival age is rising, it has been revised to read that the number of adults living with cystic fibrosis will increase 75 percent by 2015. Comment.efore 1960, an infant born with cystic fibrosis was not expected to live more than a few months. Today, thanks to advances in treatment and care, these same babies are surviving well into their late 30s. A recent study now predicts that those currently living with cystic fibrosis may live far longer.
In fact, as recently as the 1960s, most children with cystic fibrosis did not live past preschool age [source: Cystic Fibrosis Canada ]. Moreover, not so long ago in the 1980s, people with cystic fibrosis had an average life expectancy of 14 years.The life expectancy of people with cystic fibrosis has drastically improved over the last three decades.ome statistics, however, report a much more conservative life expectancy estimate of 35 years [source: Disabled World ]. The future seems even brighter for cystic fibrosis patients. The forecasted life expectancy of babies born today is 40 years old [source: Disabled World ].