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untreatable

American  
[uhn treet-uh-buhl] / ˌʌn ˈtrit ə bəl /

adjective

  1. not able to be medically treated; not responsive to medical treatment.


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Over the past several years, engineered cell therapies such as CAR-T treatments have produced dramatic, sometimes lifesaving results for people with cancers that were once considered untreatable.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 20, 2026

The disease is progressive and fatal, and has until now been almost entirely untreatable.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

Campaigner Hope Virgo worries some people with long-term and complex eating disorders are being viewed as "untreatable" and "being sent home to die".

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

In Ukraine, hospitals began to encounter untreatable infections.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

There are twenty-seven in Sarasota County, and one hundred and fifteen in all of Florida, spreading across the state like some untreatable rash.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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