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Help docs, is gene therapy available with hemochromatosis?
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No: Do not expect it any time soon. Neglected hemochromatosis will kill you miserably, but it is extremely easy to manage. You may even come to enjoy the phlebotomy treatment. It is saving your life.
Answered 8/8/2014
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