Sentences with phrase «potentially curable»

The good news is that not only is it manageable with medication or diet, but it is potentially curable with surgery or radioactive iodine treatment.

Finally, yet another phase 3 study — albeit one with less encouraging results — found that the monoclonal antibody drug cetuximab (Erbitux) did not aid people with (potentially curable) early - stage colon cancer if they carried the normal form of the KRAS gene.

That amounted to a 16 percent greater adjusted likelihood of having a potentially curable cancer.

DLBCL is an aggressive form of lymphoma that grows rapidly but is potentially curable.

Although the number of prostate needle biopsies (PNB) has been reduced, patients who undergo PNB are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with high risk disease, and detection of intermediate risk, potentially curable PCa has likely decreased.

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Active tuberculosis is treatable (and curable), but disease control and treatment adherence are complicated by a variety of factors, including availability of healthcare resources, multidrug - resistant tuberculosis strains and potentially toxic side effects of treatment.