What's the difference between curable and cured?

Curable


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though her condition was not curable, her family say that she was told that she might have 12 months to live with treatment.
  • (2) Endometrial carcinoma has been regarded as one of the more curable gynecologic malignancies.
  • (3) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
  • (4) Cervicofacial actinomycotic osteomyelitis is a curable disease.
  • (5) New light-curable adhesive opaque resins were prepared using 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride (4-META), triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), di (methacryloxyethyl) trimethylhexamethylene diurethane (UDMA) and titanium dioxide.
  • (6) Worldwide, the most striking difference was in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children, which is common and largely curable.
  • (7) It is almost always associated with hypertension and is, therefore, potentially curable when localized to a single kidney.
  • (8) At present, CT scanning is widely used for diagnosis of the disease, and the lesions are surgically curable if they are located at the accessible sites.
  • (9) Effective diagnosis is still proving challenging, particularly for children, who are especially vulnerable to this curable disease.
  • (10) In the case of a curable cause the childbirth should take place near a well equipped neonatology department, with a neonatal intensive care unit and surgical possibilities.
  • (11) Solitary men died more often from potentially curable diseases, especially pneumonia.
  • (12) Patients classified as potentially curable (stages I, II, and IIIA) were treated with surgical resection, radiation therapy, or a combination.
  • (13) These results are significantly better than our historical control, and locally advanced breast cancer must now be considered a curable disease when treated with an aggressive multimodal approach.
  • (14) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
  • (15) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.
  • (16) Smaller tumours are less curable because of inefficient absorption of radiation energy, and larger tumours are less curable because of greater clonogenic cell number.
  • (17) The best way to eradicate these cancers will be through early detection, when they are still curable by surgery.” Scientists have known for more than a century that some tissue types give rise to cancer millions of times more often than others , but why this should be so has not been clear.
  • (18) The Surgical Endoscopy Service has been aggressively evaluating gastrointestinal symptoms with colonoscopy and screening asymptomatic patients with flexible sigmoidoscopy in hopes of finding early curable colorectal cancers.
  • (19) This results from recognition of the limitations of available therapies and a clearer view of the goals of treatment in patients whose diseases may not be curable.
  • (20) Insulinoma is an endocrine tumor curable by surgical removal, but there still remain a few unfortunate patients who have brain damages due to severe hypoglycemia or are blindly treated by pancreatectomy.

Cured


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cure

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
  • (2) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (3) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (4) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (5) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
  • (6) Since the plasmid-cured strains did not contain DNA sequences homologous to plasmid DNA, the gene for the free-inclusion protein must be encoded in the chromosome.
  • (7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
  • (8) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
  • (9) Percutaneous tenotomy performed only in patients recurring after temporary cure, drops the rate of recurrences to 13%.
  • (10) Long-term health conditions cannot be 'cured' – interventions are themselves long-term – taking place throughout the life of a patient.
  • (11) These alterations were not dependent on the prophage integration prior to curing, and no phage DNA was detected in cured cells by blot hybridisation.
  • (12) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
  • (13) Fifteen apparently normal patients who had been cured of cryptococcosis were found, as a group, to have impaired responsiveness to skin testing with cryptococcin and mumps, minimal leukocyte migration inhibition when stimulated with cryptococcin or C. neoformans, but normal group responses to cryptococcin in Cryptococcus-induced lymphocyte transformation.
  • (14) Ultimately, prevention is a better approach than cure.
  • (15) Nine among 21 patients (42%) who were initially treated by percutaneous puncture were definitively cured: all pseudocysts were smaller than 55 mm.
  • (16) The median duration of treatment for the clinical cures in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were 29.5 days and 46 days respectively.
  • (17) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
  • (18) Clinical improvement did not occur in treated patients, and microbiologic cure was never obtained.
  • (19) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
  • (20) Oral potassium iodide therapy resulted in complete cure.

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