Article: CYSTIC FIBROSIS PATIENTS GET NEW LEASE ON LIFE.(NEWS)

Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer

When David Avant was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 5, doctors told his parents that he would not live past 18.

The disease ravages the lungs, killing half its victims by age 30.

Avant missed simple pleasures that most people take for granted: eating ice cream, playing softball, washing a favorite car.

But a lung transplant operation 2-1/2 years ago - using his parents as donors - changed his life.

``It's the closest thing to a cure,'' said Avant, now a 23-year-old graphic artist, married three weeks.

To raise money in support of research to find a cure for the ...

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