curable
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When we got the diagnosis of Stage 2 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a curable form of blood cancer, my first words in response were, “I am thrilled.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
This is not the first research to suggest dementia might someday be curable.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
While it isn't curable, antiviral medication developed in the '90s means that patients can live long and healthy lives.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 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
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