Mainstream infectious disease doctors believe Lyme Disease, which is transmitted by ticks, is curable with a short dose of antibiotics.

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This is a curable disease.

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Studies find that although doctors usually tell patients when a cancer is not curable, most are reluctant to give a specific prognosis, even when pressed.

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This is how a once-curable killer has, over time, become almost untreatable again.

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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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Mr. Camp, 59. said he has been diagnosed with a "very early, highly treatable and curable type" of the disease known as large B-cell lymphoma.

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But we need to keep in mind, too, that it's only been within the last 30 years or so that we actually can cure a lot of cancers that before were not curable.

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