The phrase "advanced incurable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical contexts to describe a condition that is both severe and cannot be cured.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with an advanced incurable disease, which left the medical team with limited treatment options."
Alternatives: "progressive terminal" or "severe untreatable".
In "The Big C," a new Showtime cable network series that makes its debut in August, she stars as a dutiful, repressed, 42-year-old teacher, mother and wife in suburban Minneapolis who has advanced, incurable cancer.
The researchers approached health professionals, community and religious leaders, and volunteer workers to identify eligible individuals they knew to have advanced incurable illness.
All patients in the study had advanced incurable cancer and a range of primary tumours including breast, lung, gastrointestinal tract, kidney, ovarian and melanoma.
The 'Needs Assessment for Advanced Cancer Patients' is a pen and paper questionnaire, specifically developed to assess the needs of people who have advanced, incurable cancer.
The findings of this study indicate that patients who have advanced, incurable cancer experience high levels of need in relation to psychological/emotional and medical communication/information issues.
The patient population in the Campbell & White study [ 18] was not defined except by their participation in Phase I trials, whereas the Waldron & O'Boyle sample [ 17] all had advanced incurable cancer.
Patients were required to have a histologically confirmed advanced, incurable malignancy that was refractory to conventional therapy, or for which treatment with pemetrexed and/or cisplatin was considered appropriate.
(For the purposes of this review we defined palliative care patients as people with life-threatening, advanced, incurable disease); (3) studies of psychosocial and/or psycho-education based interventions pre-patient death and (4) studies published between years 2000 to 2009.
A Phase I study in advanced, incurable cancers 201 (Table 3, BG) indicated that further clinical trials are warranted.
If you were on a ventilator or had an advanced, incurable disease?
This trial was conducted to assess safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics in a 2-week trial of ghrelin infusion given intravenously, at one of two dose levels, once weekly, 1 h before lunch, to patients with far-advanced, incurable cancer, and involuntary loss of weight and appetite.
