curable
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A new scientific breakthrough in the field of Alzheimer’s research is raising hopes that the cruel, crippling and fatal brain disease may eventually become curable.
From MarketWatch
More than 95 percent of all people have natural immunity to Hansen’s, which is only mildly communicable even to those with susceptibility, and since 1941, it has been entirely curable.
From Salon
While it isn't curable, antiviral medication developed in the '90s means that patients can live long and healthy lives.
From BBC
The former teacher and father of three told the BBC that if men were offered regular screening from the age of 50, his disease might have been caught when it was still curable.
From BBC
More than half of the cancers found by Galleri in the study were at an early stage, when they might be curable.
From Barron's
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