How can the disease be treated?

Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that can be treated but not cured.  There are about 4 ways that you can do this.  The first treatment is inhaled antibiotics that kill the bacteria that cause lung infections.  The next treatment is bronchodilators (Also used by people with asthma), which helps to keep the patient’s air ways open.  Then there is chest therapy, where a patient is repeatedly hit on the back to break up the mucous in their chest.  And then last method of treatment is gene therapy which I currently in clinical trial.  In gene therapy healthy CFTR is out into the patient’s lung cells to correct the defective genes.