What is the survival for cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Many resources online quote survival figures for IPF of 35 years from diagnosis. This can be very scary for most patients. However, 35 years represents a median, or middle number in a very large group of patients.
Therefore survival will depend a lot on individual circumstances and the behavior of the disease.
I would really recommend asking your own healthcare team about appropriate information for your case, as the disease behavior of IPF differs a lot from person to person.
It is important to remember that IPF is a diagnosis of exclusion, and we can only exclude a relatively small number of causes. This makes IPF very different from case to case. Not all cases of IPF are the same.

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