When Taxol, for example, emerged 20 years ago, you would have thought from all the breathless articles that cancer would be cured forever if we could just grow enough of the yew trees from which the drug was made.

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Charlie may be hauled back from the verge of suicide, but he will never be cured.

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If I could be cured of this once and for all and freed from the debilitating allergies that plague me throughout the year, it would mean the world to me.

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It sees people from the full spectrum of ages, some of whom have illnesses that cannot be cured.

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Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.

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