(BPT) - Did you know that the same number of people die each year from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, as breast cancer? And yet IPF, a rare and debilitating disease that causes permanent scarring of the lungs, is still relatively unknown.
Fortunately, the focus on rare diseases like IPF is growing because they’re more common than we think: when combined, they affect nearly 30 million, or about one in 10 Americans.
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