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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
I would respectfully disagree and state that "cure" does not require pharmaceutical intervention, "cure" does imply that some intervention has been provdied, however (encouraging a patient with mild vitamin D deficiency to spend more time in the sun, for example). . "Cured" means that a pathologic process that was present is no no longer present and has been gone for a sufficient amount of time to state that recurrence is no more likely than spontaneously developing the patholog process anew.
I endorse your use of remission however.  |
I didn't say "cure"
requires pharmaceutical intervention only that it
implies the possibility to treat an underlying pathology. As you stated "cured" means that a pathological process has been abated. Ergo, no need to respectfully disagree - we agree.
