"A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a ...
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philosophical mindset that helps end a person´s sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured.
A disease is said to be incurable if there is always a chance of the patient relapsing, no matter how long the patient has been in remission. An incurable disease may or may not be a terminal illness; conversely, a curable illness can still result in the patient´s death.
The proportion of people with a disease that are cured by a given treatment, called the cure fraction or cure rate, is determined by comparing disease-free survival of treated people against a matched control group that never had the disease." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.10.2019)
