Is Hansen Disease Curable?

Commentary (Hansen)—Limited Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Potentially Curable Disease

The article by Sherman et al is a broad review of the recent developments in the treatment of patients with small-cell lung cancer who present with limited disease. Intially, the authors emphasize that the increasing use of more intensive and refined staging procedures, such as computed tomography (CT) scan and, more recently, positron-emission tomography (PET) scan, have resulted in stage migr...

Is recurrent respiratory papillomatosis a manageable or curable disease?

OBJECTIVES Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a relatively rare disease with potentially devastating consequences for the patient. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patterns of recurrence of RRP after surgery and determine the effectiveness of combined concurrent adjuvant therapy. METHODS A total of 86 patients were diagnosed with and operated on for RRP. The clinical c...

Is autism curable?

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder of multifactorial origin. Today, ASD is generally not curable, although it is treatable to a varying degree to prevent worse outcomes. Some reports indicate the possibility of major improvements or even recovery in ASD. However, these studies are based on scientific shortcomings, and the lack of a clear definition of ...

Can multiple myeloma become a curable disease?

Metastatic colorectal cancer: a curable disease.

It is sometimes easy to forget what the field of cancer therapy used to look like. In an early report on the natural history of 125 patients with isolated metastases from colorectal cancer (CRC), no one received any effective therapy for liver metastases, and most received no therapy at all.[1] The median survival of the patients in this series was 12.5 months, and all patients were dead at 5-y...