Written by admin on 2009-05-15T06:35:49+0000">May 15, 2009 – 6:35 am
Potentially curative treatment, or treatment with curative intent, are truthful expressions that are sometimes incorrectly shortened to ‘curative treatment’. This last term wrongly implies that all patients having the treatment will be cured. Potentially curative treatment is treatment that is capable of completely and permanently curing a cancer. Some potentially curative treatments actually do cure most of the patients having them, others cure only a small proportion. If your doctor tells you that a proposed treatment is potentially curative, make sure you find out what the chance of cure by it is. You need to know this to weigh up the benefit against the cost. If there is only a five per cent (one in twenty) chance of cure you might be less prepared to accept its cost then if it is a ninety-five per cent (nineteen in twenty).
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