They have quite a different opinion as to the curability of most chronic diseases.
She has written a book on the curability of breast cancer and the treatment of advanced disease.
The use of steroids in the past reduces the curability of patients with homeopathic remedies.
A series of studies with diabetics20 supported the importance of representations about seriousness (consequences) and treatment beliefs (controllability/ curability) in predicting self management.
To account for all possible combinations of susceptibility, infectivity, and ' curability ' levels, the number of compartments in the model would need to be increased dramatically, leading to an intractable model.
The words "acute"and"chronic" have no reference to the curability of the disease apart from an occasional loose usage of the terms.
But for the others, these follow-ups have revealed a great degree of curability.
Is there confusion between treatability and curability?
