'difficult treatment' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Example sentence: The patient's condition required a difficult treatment plan that involved multiple surgeries and months of rehabilitation.
So a detailed diagnosis is difficult; treatment still quite basic and a full cure elusive.
The pressure was really on as I had to work twice as hard through a difficult treatment process to prove my worth.
Admittedly, I was tired all the time - I went to work and then straight home to bed mostly - but I didn't get depressed.' Angela Narbey sees successful adherence to what is by everyone's estimation a difficult treatment as very much dependent on a good support facility being in place.
To the Editor: As a cancer survivor who has faced recurrent bouts of disease, I agree that the intense marketing campaigns used by cancer centers only heighten the stress and anxiety of the difficult treatment decisions that all cancer patients face.
He said inner city areas had been singled out for "brutally difficult treatment".
Sarkar (1998) presents a sophisticated (and technically quite difficult) treatment of arguments against heritability.
But injured workers who are put on high doses of the drugs can develop chronic pain and face years of difficult treatments.
Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) face significant hurdles regarding health-related quality of life (HRQOL) related to the chronic relapsing nature of the condition, unpredictable disease course and difficult treatments [1, 2, 3].
For instance, in the case of cancer, it may improve the patient's ability to comply with difficult treatments.
It's a line of defense that may not hold, as the emergence of increasingly drug-resistant TB strains threaten to turn difficult treatments into obsolete ones.
Having gotten through two difficult treatments and discovering I didn't die, I feel hopeful that I have time to tie all the threads together so they make something pretty that is able to hold value in a concise message.
