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curability

American  
[kyoor-uh-bil-i-tee] / ˌkjʊər əˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

  • curabilities
    plural
  1. the state, quality, or fact of being curable.


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"It's the curability of breast cancer," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

Speaking to NBC's Today show, Coulier said his tongue cancer has "a 90% curability rate", adding that he is undergoing 35 rounds of radiation that will end on 31 December.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

“If you do no harm,” he told the New York Times in 1986, “then you do no harm to the cancer either. I’m interested in the curability of these diseases.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2018

"There's been a lot of progress in the curability of ganglioneuroblastoma," said Sawaf.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2011

To have anticipated our modern views with regard to tuberculosis, its curability, and the best methods of treatment shows how thoroughly Stokes had studied his cases of consumption.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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