Sentences with phrase «still curable»

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Though it is preventable and curable, TB still kills 1.5 million people per year — 300,000 more than are lost to AIDS annually — and rates as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

Despite being curable with multidrug therapy, leprosy still persists in many developing countries, with more than 200,000 new cases every year and increasing drug - resistant strains of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, emerging.

Although the study revealed that fewer patients were untreated over time, a significant proportion of patients still do not receive treatment for «an otherwise highly curable disease,» explained Dr. Kapadia.

Breast cancer is becoming a curable disease when diagnosed at an early stage; however, the majority of cancer - related death is still attributed to metastatic disease.

We know that far too many patients with curable cancers if they are caught at earlier stage, colon cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, these cancers are still detected late when they are less amenable to curative treatments.

Spending millions and billions on intermittent solar panels and wind generators in countries where mothers still walk miles and spend hours every day to collect water (unsafe water in most cases), where children die of easily - curable diseases and grow up mentally handicapped due to malnutrition and lack of vitamins costing a penny or two a day, such spending makes a mockery of altruism and humanitarianism — it is a cruel slap - in - the - face of those struggling to stay alive and raise their families.