Follicular lymphoma (FL) is currently incurable using conventional chemotherapy or immunotherapy regimes, compelling new strategies.
Despite significant improvements in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, TNBC remains incurable using currently available drugs.
In the circumstances it would have been the compassionate thing to do and Lisa deserved that". I don't think it is wrong to frame a question about how those with incurable illnesses use social media, but the Guardian was wrong in the way it went about it.
Approximately 10-40% of healthy children and more than 50% of children with chronic, recurrent, or incurable conditions use CAM, most often in conjunction with conventional care [ 4, 5].
5 Studies have documented that patients with incurable cancer frequently use acute care hospitals for acute problems and symptomatic treatment, 6 – 8 particularly older patients with cancer during their last month of life.
Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell malignancy, which still remains incurable despite the use of conventional high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation. 1 Since 2000, novel agents such as thalidomide, lenalidomide and bortezomib have been introduced in clinical settings and have remarkably improved patients' outcomes.
"My condition is chronic and incurable so I used to get into a real state worrying about it.
Here is an example that shows the focus on a service, not a technology: 'Grandpa Paul was saved from a disease that was incurable 35 years ago, by using nanotechnology.
Despite this limitation, this study addressed some of the shortcomings of the past research by focusing on patients with advanced incurable cancer and using a multidimensional self-report measure with demonstrable reliability, validity and acceptability (Rainbird et al, 2005).
Yet, during the first half of the 20th century, when all lymphomas remained incurable, radiation was used mostly for palliation and responses where brief due to technical constraints and/or poor methods of delivering radiation.
