The word "untreatable" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is not able to be treated, usually in a medical context. For example, you could say, "The doctors determined that the patient's illness was untreatable."
Grading cancer cells into "indolent" and "aggressive", and hazarding an opinion about whether they spell a treatable condition or an untreatable one, has remained the realm of the human expert.But not for much longer, if Daphne Koller, a computer scientist at Stanford University, and her colleagues have their way.
Even if they know better than to believe that mental illnesses are untreatable, or that all sufferers are delusional, they may fear being shunned by friends or employers.
The benefit, from the patient's point of view, is help for an infection that is currently untreatable except, perhaps, by getting on a plane to Warsaw or Tbilisi.
Mum, Dad and Mitomum Roadrunners Plank walk Beached in Brussels ReprintsThe technology, which was pioneered in Britain and America, is designed to cure the roughly one baby in 6,500 that would otherwise be born with a serious, untreatable mitochondrial illness.
Continual advances in medical science have enabled hospitals to treat those once untreatable.
Some foreign intelligence sources suggest that Mr Chávez has an untreatable sarcoma.Democratic accountability should trump medical secretsIf this is true, he would not be the first political leader to try to hide a medical problem.
Grading cancer cells into "indolent" and "aggressive", and hazarding an opinion about whether they spell a treatable condition or an untreatable one, has remained the realm of the human expert.
His patients had advanced liver cancer, which is untreatable.
If bigger trials confirm it, it may open the road to a new type of therapy for cancers that were previously untreatable.
It also means that a similar number of people must receive either an existing treatment if one is available, or a dummy known as a placebo if the disease is currently untreatable, without them (or indeed their doctors) knowing that it is not the new drug being tested.
At the moment, Alzheimer's is more or less untreatable.
