DORCHESTER - APRIL 05: Dominique Entzminger, a physician assistant of family medicine, wears a stethoscope during an examination at the Codman Square Health Center April 5, 2006 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. State lawmakers approved a health care reform bill March 4 that would make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to require all its citizens have some form of health insurance. Governor Mitt Romney is scheduled to sign the bill next week. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — There’s a disease you’ve probably never heard of that affects newborns. Doctors are now recruiting for two clinical trials in hopes of find a cure for Tuberos Sclerosis Complex.
TSC is a genetic disorder that causes tumors in the brain, eyes, heart, kidney, lungs and other organs.
It affects some people severely, while others are so mildly affected that it often goes undiagnosed.
Experts estimate at least two children are born with TSC each day. There are approximately 50,000 people with the disease living in the United States.
The disease develops from a genetic mutation and produces non-cancerous but still potentially deadly tumors in the body’s organs.
Learn more at TSCAlliance.org.