curable

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Bowel cancer is curable, especially if diagnosed at an early stage.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

This is not the first research to suggest dementia might someday be curable.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

Cancers that were considered death sentences not long ago—e.g., advanced melanoma, non-small-cell lung and blood cancers—are now curable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

“One of the things we talk about is cancer within a team and how there are times when cancer can really affect a lot of things and it’s not curable and it spreads,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

You feel it coming on halfway through a shift or later, and you can interpret it the normal way as a symptom of a kind of low-level illness, curable with immediate rest.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich