A<unk>  is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or<unk> d. The medical condition could be a disease, mental illness, genetic disorder, or simply a condition a person considers socially undesirable, such as baldness or lack of breast tissue. An incurable disease may or may not be a terminal illness; conversely, a<unk> able illness can still result in the patient's death. The proportion of people with a disease that are<unk> d by a given treatment, called the<unk>  fraction or<unk>  rate, is determined by comparing disease-free survival of treated people against a matched control group that never had the disease. Another way of determining the<unk>  fraction and/or "cure time" is by measuring when the hazard rate in a diseased group of individuals returns to the hazard rate measured in the general population. Inherent in the idea of a<unk>  is the permanent end to the specific instance of the disease. When a person has the common cold, and then recovers from it, the person is said to be<unk> d, even though the person might someday catch another cold. Conversely, a person that has successfully managed a disease, such as diabetes mellitus, so that it produces no undesirable symptoms for the moment, but without actually permanently ending it, is not<unk> d. Related concepts, whose meaning can differ, include response, remission and recovery.
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