About 10, 000 Americans each year are diagnosed with these tumors, which are nearly always incurable.
Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy.
Do you want to know you will get Lou Gehrig's disease if it remains incurable?
Oncologists are in the business of providing hope to patients with incurable advanced disease.
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AIDS, though still incurable, seldom nowadays means imminent death, and malaria kills hardly anyone.
Nor is the Turks' general human-rights performance quite as bleakly incurable as their critics assume.
If cynicism sets in among employers and the unemployed, it is likely to prove incurable.
Poverty is amorphous and sounds incurable, but needs are specific: food, water, shelter, medical care and education.
Concern over drug-resistant strains of TB is growing, with similar 'incurable' TB emerging in Italy and Iran.
In 1983 researchers found the approximate location of the gene for Huntington's disease, the incurable brain illness.
It is an incurable, debilitating disease that slowly renders sufferers increasingly immobile and eventually leads to death.
Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism.
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This has allowed scientists all over the world to develop innovative and effective approaches to previously incurable conditions.
First, there is no one who is not aware that Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, is suffering from incurable breast cancer.
He went on to thank him for "indulging our incurable dependence on him".
What we had in common was our incurable, hopeless infatuation with our iPhones.
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
The results are nothing less than what patients have come to expect when they seek treatment for incurable diseases.
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An invented incurable disease kills off a marriage, a career, a hero's self-esteem.
We will continue to work with them, and I still harbor incurable optimism.
"If the husband doesn't try to understand, the illness becomes incurable, " he says.
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As recently as the 1950s, polio was a dreaded, incurable disease that killed or paralyzed millions of children each year.
The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was diagnosed with an incurable but treatable form of cancer last week.
He added that the affair had ended before his wife, Elizabeth, was diagnosed with an incurable form of breast cancer.
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We have worked very hard to take what was an incurable disease and make it curable for 90 percent of the cases.
Is someone with terminal cancer, dementia, incurable congestive heart failure dying, exactly?
Before the onset of his disease, a rare incurable neurological disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus, he was six-foot four and 200 pounds.
Advocates of human embryo cloning for medical research claim the practice could lead to the discovery of treatments for illnesses currently deemed incurable.
Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam play a couple of incurable idiots characters whom they created and refined over the course of a long-running TV series.
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