The sobering realization contrasts with the optimism, if not euphoria, that enveloped the AIDS meeting in Vancouver in 1996, when leading experts talked about the prospects of curing AIDS.
I thought at the time that this was a cruel deception – that the prospect of cures specifically from animal-human hybrids was not based on credible prediction but on spin and empty promises.
Patients receiving adjuvant therapy expect their treatment to prevent breast cancer recurrence and offer the prospect of cure.
Still, physicians' information about medical interventions frequently include a grain of interpretation or untruthfulness – be it that the prospect of cure is somewhat exaggerated or the likelihood of adverse effects a bit downplayed.
Neither does it hold out the prospect of a "cure".
He links Jerome's emotional masochism — from which he offers the prospect of a cure — to Hitchcockian sadism and creates a cinematic world of comparable visual ecstasy that offers, nonetheless, a more humanistic outcome.
"Christmas will be a particularly joyous time this year for many living with hepatitis C as they can now look forward to the prospect of a cure and a much healthier future," chief executive officer, Helen Tyrrell, said.
A long list of cancers, urinary-tract disorders, kidney ailments, joint failures and even canine dementia can now be diagnosed and treated, with the prospect of a cure or greatly improved health, thanks to imaging technology, better drugs, new surgical techniques and holistic approaches like acupuncture.
Yet, in recent years many advances have occurred that are promising for the prospect of finding cures.
Allogeneic HSCT is the only therapy that offers the prospect of a cure for AD, due to its ability to induce a graft-versus-autoimmunity effect, but its attendant risk of GVHD precludes its routine use in AD.
