How to Use curable in a Sentence

curable

adjective
  • Most cases are curable with proper treatment.
  • The good news was that the doctors told him it one of the most curable forms of cancer.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • In this case, curable means six rounds of chemo, each round lasting five days.
    Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • And, at the moment, no less curable by vaccine or medicine.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The melanoma was also stage one, which is much more curable than a later stage.
    As Told To Hannah Harper, Health.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • While my breast cancer isn't curable, treatment has come a long way.
    Woman's Day, 9 July 2018
  • Thankfully, STDs are preventable and for the most part, curable.
    Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 6 Sep. 2018
  • In the simplest terms, the key symptoms of burnout boil down to exhaustion in the form of a deep kind of fatigue that isn’t curable by resting.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2022
  • For the era’s doctors, the concept conveniently solved the mystery of why illness seemed far more curable in the young than the old.
    Joseph Coughlin, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
  • For most long-haulers, the illness is neither fatal nor curable.
    Shayna Skarf, STAT, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Made of curable ceramic, the white pumpkin has a cut-out jack o'lantern face that allows the tealight candle's soft glow to shine through.
    Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2021
  • In order to find one case of curable prostate cancer, the kind that is destined to spread and threaten a man’s life, many men will need screening.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Imagine a simple blood test that could flag most kinds of cancers at the earliest, most curable stage.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 21 June 2021
  • Doctors told the couple that Wilkin’s cancer was treatable, but not curable.
    Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2018
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most curable form of skin cancer.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Cancers that have spread, known as metastatic disease, are rarely curable.
    Robert Gatenby, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer, but also the most curable form.
    CBS News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Fifteen crucial drugs—the kind that can render cancers curable—have been out of stock in hospitals for months.
    Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Colon cancer is curable in nearly all cases if it is found early.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2023
  • If treated early, Hodgkin's can be highly curable, but Hudson was in late Stage 3.
    Gerrick D. Kennedy, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But most of the time, metastatic cancer is considered treatable, not curable.
    Ashley Abramson, Allure, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Mr Beast himself has even questioned why governments don’t do more to help those who have curable blindness.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The disease is now curable if caught and treated early with antibitoics.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • While metastatic cancer isn’t curable, it can be treated.
    Jillian Kramer, Glamour, 19 Nov. 2022
  • These days, leprosy is curable but continues to affect tens of thousands each year.
    Kathleen M. Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Melanoma is curable when detected and removed at an early stage.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
  • Swarup added that syphilis is curable with the right antibiotics, but the infection can still cause irreversible damage.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 4 May 2023
  • Even curable diseases are a challenge to prevent among the refugee community, Gough said.
    Washington Post, 5 May 2017
  • While polio is not curable, there is an effective vaccine to prevent it.
    Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • The announcement was met with a slew of hate comments from trolls who claim that since the infection is curable when caught in its early stages, Bieber is making a big fuss out of nothing.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2020

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