• Details practical advice for the patient based on the latest scientific evidence
• Includes Key Points boxes at the start of each chapter to quickly summarise important concepts covered in text
• Case Histories and Patient Perspectives provide practical examples throughout
• 'Myth versus fact' boxes highlight common misunderstandings and interesting facts about the condition
• Includes invaluable resource section with further contacts and support groups

Readership: Patients, parents, carers, nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists, psychologists and other members of the CF support team. Also for school teachers, employers, personnel managers, friends and the general public.

Anne Thomson, Director, Oxford Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Oxford Children's Hospital, Oxford, UK, and Ann Harris, Director, Human Molecular Genetics Programme, Children's Memorial Research Centre, Chicago, USA

1: Making the diagnosis
2: How cystic fibrosis affects the lungs
3: How Cystic fibrosis affects the digestive system
4: How cystic fibrosis affects other organs
5: The cystic fibrosis team
6: Daily treatment
7: Nutrition in Cystic fibrosis
8: Management of care
9: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other infections
10: Cystic fibrosis and school
11: Growing up with Cystic fibrosis
12: CF and the family
13: Future therapies
14: Genetics of Cystic fibrosis
15: Genetic counselling and CF
16: Further information sources