It cannot be treated with palliatives.
And though less deadly than malaria, dengue fever cannot be treated with medicine.
The virus is not harmful to humans and cannot be treated with antibiotics.
Europe has seen a rapid increase in multi-drug-resistant – or MDR – tuberculosis, which cannot be treated with the two antibiotic treatments normally given to sufferers.
Adults with type 1 Gaucher disease that cannot be treated with imiglucerase may instead be treated with miglustat, a drug taken orally that inhibits the production of glucocerebrosides.
Scientists also reported that PARP inhibitors might have promise against so-called triple-negative breast cancer, which lacks receptors for estrogen, progesterone and Her2, and therefore cannot be treated with hormone therapy or Herceptin.
The battle against bacteria once looked as if it had been won, but the recent emergence of new bugs that cannot be treated with conventional antibiotics has rekindled interest in the area.
It only works against certain disease-causing bacteria, and in studies of patients with the toughest infections -- those that cannot be treated with vancomycin -- it cured only two-thirds of the cases.
Among breast cancer subtypes, tumors of basal-like and claudin-low subtypes are typically associated with worse patient outcomes, are primarily classified as triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC), and cannot be treated with existing hormone-receptor-targeted therapies.
Overprescription of antibiotics, along with their overuse in animals, has caused growing drug resistance in humans with serious health implications – leading to the rise of superbugs such as MRSA that cannot be treated with existing antibiotics.
Using small amounts of antibiotics over long periods of time leads to the growth of bacteria that are resistant to the drugs' effects, endangering humans who become infected but cannot be treated with routine antibiotic therapy.
