Both diseases are manageable but not curable, and both can be deadly if untreated.

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He said the cancer is treatable but not curable.

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The breast cancer, which has spread, is "no longer curable but completely treatable, " said Sen.

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Melastatin stuck out as being present in curable tumors but absent in nasty ones.

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The news was that Elizabeth's cancer was not curable, but it was treatable.

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This is a type of malignancy that frequently is curable, but when it's destined to come back it can come back over the course of many, many years.

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It is curable, but because Zimbabwe lacks the drugs and doctors to treat it, the death rate there is 10 times greater than it is in countries where treatment is available, according to former President Jimmy Carter, who visited with officials in the region last week.

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It is curable in almost all who are treated, but the rate of recovery from multi-drug-resistance is far lower, although studies vary widely.

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