Examples of incurable

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Living with an incurable form of cancer forced patients into a heightened awareness of their mortality.
Critics of treatment for inhibiting incurable disease and infertility.
There could be a temptation, on the part of some, to dismiss this as the thinking of an incurable romantic or a committed ideologue.
Have you ever stopped medical treatment of a patient who had an incurable disease?
In conclusion, although the recruitment process was challenging, a high proportion of the incurable cancer patients were interested in attending structured exercise.
Among the general population, 73% of participants answered that they "want to know" about their disease and prognosis when in an incurable disease state.
A patient suffering from a severe, incurable physical illness asks his doctor to administer drugs to provoke his death direct active euthanasia!.
Who do you primarily notify about disease and prognosis when a patient in your care has an incurable disease?
Experimental therapies are increasingly perceived not as a highly problematic approach but as a near-standard way to deal with incurable cancer.
On a more base level some health practitioners take advantage of this heroic struggle against mortality by marketing "cure alls" for incurable conditions.
The inclusion criteria were incurable malignant disease, aged over 18 years, and a predicted survival time of 2-9 months.
Rehabilitation and advanced incurable illnesses are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Both specialties share a common clientele increasing in numbers: older people with incurable illnesses.
Even if the condition is incurable, identifying a disorder such as dementia is useful, in that an appropriate care package can organized.
A range of illnesses, most of which are currently incurable, can cause dementia.
With a rapidly aging population, the incidence of cancer and other incurable conditions is likely to increase.
Metastatic breast cancer usually presents as disseminated disease and is regarded as incurable, although a few long-term survivors are observed.
To have an incurable disease means that the agent will (according to the best understanding of modern science) die or be in intense, incurable pain.
Although advanced cancer therapies have prolonged many patients' survival, most neoplasms remain incurable.
Family caregiver reports provided at the time of hospice enrollment of physician discussions of incurable illness, life expectancy, and hospice.
In the care of children, she changed seemingly incurable conditions and identified hope through diagnosis, palliation and surgical repair.
The agent is not at risk to die or to be in intense, incurable pain.
Overall survival is poor because many patients present with locally advanced and often incurable disease.
To call attention to and give some value to the unchanging, immutable, inflexible, untreatable and incurable is to be deeply unfashionable, even sacrilegious.
Living with incurable cancer at the end of life was experienced as living in physical distress as the body became incapacitated by unexpected physical complications.
Incurable cancer frequently generates distressful physical symptoms and psychological and social distress.
Physical exercise seems to be a feasible way to improve well-being among patients with incurable cancer.
The diagnosis of an incurable disease implies an existential crisis.
Each of these agents can lead to psychological problems, anxiety, and depression, and some drugs can create long-term or incurable brain disorders.
Meaning can take place in accepting what cannot be changed, that is, in the attitude one takes toward unalterable situations such as death and incurable diseases.
The debates on the desirability of "experimental therapies" versus the "palliation" orientation for patients suffering from advanced, incurable cancer focus on an important and difficult question.
They found that the physicians informed most patients about the aim of anticancer treatment (84.7%), that their disease was incurable (74.6%), and about their predicted life expectancy (57.6%).
The palliative care day and domiciliary teams aim to provide maximum support, so that older people with incurable illnesses can be managed in their own homes.
Patients with incurable cancer were interviewed and asked to f ill out a wr itten questionnaire about their attitudes concerning life-prolong ing treatment and end-of-life dec ision making.
The objective of this study was to elucidate the meaning of quality of life as narrated by patients with incurable cancer approaching death in palliative home care.
We examined family caregiver reports of physician communication about incurable illness, life expectancy, and hospice, the timing of these discussions, and subsequent family understanding of these issues.
In the authors' opinion, just as in cancer, palliative care should be offered according to the needs of the patient, regardless of clinical stage, in an incurable non-cancer condition.
Nursing homes need to be able to cater well for end-of-life needs, considering the rising number of elderly patients with advanced incurable illnesses requiring placement in community.
In support, given that prostate cancer is so prevalent and is incurable in its advanced form, early detection can reduce suffering and enable earlier, effective treatment.
The low grade may be quite impossibly incurable, permanently insane.
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