The phrase "attack the cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing addressing the root of a problem or issue rather than just the symptoms.
Example: "To effectively resolve the ongoing issue, we must attack the cause rather than just treating the symptoms."
Alternatives: "address the root" or "tackle the underlying issue".
Others say that it does not attack the cause of low growth: excessive spending and debt, which depress investment by keeping taxes and interest rates high.
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Known generically as pleconaril, it's the first drug to attack the cause of the illness and not just the symptoms.
Ideal treatments attack the cause, rather than the symptoms, of a disease.
Though the man suffered head injuries in the attack, the cause of death will not be determined until after an autopsy, a police spokesman said.
Producers said that although it was officially known that Presley died of heart failure attack, the cause of his heart failure was still subject to speculation and had fuelled a "melting pot" of "conspiracy theories".
Environmental measures must anticipate, prevent, and attack the causes of environmental degradation.
"We're going to be making lots of drugs that attack the cause of cancer like we made antibiotics that attacked the cause of infection," Dr. John Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said at the annual meeting here of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
How does discrediting a #BlackLivesMatter activist and attacking the cause of police reform advance the cause of free speech?
"Education is key to attacking the causes of violence," he said.
Over the next decade, he attacked the causes of the meltdowns, doing away with many off-balance-sheet liabilities and other tricks that helped companies smooth their earnings.
