RE: 1 share16 Feb 2023 08:23
It’s all about finding the right specimen to test. You don’t just get any old lung.
From what I can gather there are typically around 30,000 people in the uk with some form of IPF. Those are the source of material.
So you either have to wait for someone to die, or they have a lung transplant.
In terms of transplants, typically there are around 200 per year in the uk. How many of those have the relevant IPF condition to test for NfX is likely to be small percentage.
Then, you are looking for someone to pass away with a lung that is right and that their family agree to donate.
They may have been on treatment, so the lung is already containing trace of that, would that work for the testing.
So you can see it’s not large numbers of potential lungs that are available to test.