curative

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While there are medical based treatments such as chemotherapy, steroids and hormone therapy available, none of them are "curative", he said.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

This particular case is one that led to his revelation about using the placenta to create his curative lens, but it was also a case/client that tested his resolve.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2024

Treatments are available for only a handful of hereditary diseases, and curative therapies are even more rare.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

Mom was big on the curative powers of sleep.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix