The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was diagnosed with an incurable but treatable form of cancer last week.
Consumers, on the other hand, were bombarded with television commercials reminding them that high cholesterol is a dangerous but treatable problem.
The breast cancer, which has spread, is "no longer curable but completely treatable, " said Sen.
Half a century from now, will people look back as pityingly on our bafflement before nearly equally devastating but ultimately treatable mental illnesses?
In fact, beriberi is a rare but easily treatable disease caused by lack of Vitamin B1 (thiamine), which is abundant in unpolished rice.
The news was that Elizabeth's cancer was not curable, but it was treatable.
The diagnosis, stage III prostate cancer, means that the cancer has already begun to spread, but is still potentially treatable.
Ms McCarthy said severe PND was "very treatable" but she said there will be "some women that will need very specialist inpatient care".
Dr Portland said it was highly likely that the problem for most children with learning difficulties was not neurological but metabolic - and therefore treatable with supplements.
The researchers were suggesting that some women might be miscarrying because they had too many NK cells in their womb, but that this might be treatable with a steroid drug called prednisolone.
But doctors emphasize that all of the illnesses are treatable if they can reach those who are most affected.
The virus may not turn out to be the only cause of MS, but if it is, it may turn out to be treatable.
Around 1, 000 people die from bowel cancer each year in Wales, but if picked up early, it is also one of the most treatable.
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