Therapy for most common cause of cystic fibrosis safe and effective in 6-11

(Ann& Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) An international, open-label Phase 3 study, co-led by Susanna McColley, MD, from Ann& Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, found that a regimen of three drugs (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) that targets the genetic cause of cystic fibrosis was safe and effective in 6-11-year-olds with at least one copy of F508del mutation in the CFTR gene, which is estimated to represent almost 90 percent of the cystic fibrosis population in the United States.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news