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List of incurable diseases
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The following is a list of debilitating diseases for which medical science has no cure — by which is meant a means of inducing a permanent end to the specific instance of the disease. Some of these diseases have a medical therapy or treatment, however, which can ease symptoms, and may prolong life expectancy to near normal or normal. This list is incomplete. * Acute lymphocytic leukemia * Acute myeloid leukemia * acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), see also HIV * Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) * Alzheimer's disease * Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, disease) * Aspartylglucosaminuria * Asthma * Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease * Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease * Avian influenza * B-mannosidosis * Batten disease (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis) * Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, "mad cow" disease) * Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) * Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) * Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), see also bovine spongiform encephalopathy and kuru * Crohn's disease * Currarino triad * Cystic fibrosis * Cystinosis * Dementia * * Dysmyelogenic leukodystrophy (DMD, a.k.a. Alexander disease) * Ebola * Emphysema (C.O.P.D.) * Farber disease * Fatal familial insomnia * Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva * Fucosidosis * Galactosialidosis (Goldberg syndrome) * Gaucher disease * GM1 gangliodsidosis * Hairy cell leukemia * Heart disease (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy)-HCM or HOCM * Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HVPS) * Herpes zoster * High grade astrocytoma (brain cancer) * Hurler syndrome (includes Hurler-Scheie) * Hunter syndrome * Huntington's disease * infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis * Immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura * Influenza * Krabbe disease * Kuru, see Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease * Lissencephaly * Lymphocytic lymphomas ** Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ** Small lymphocytic lymphoma * Maroteaux-Lamy * Marburg hemorrhagic fever * Measles * Metastatic melanoma * Metastatic breast cancer * Metastatic prostate cancer * Non-small cell lung cancer * Metastatic gastric cancer * Metastatic merkel cell carcinoma * Metastatic renal cell carcinoma * Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) * Morquio A * Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease) * Mucolipidosis IV * Multiple sclerosis (MS) * Myasthenia gravis * Niemann-Pick disease (All types: A, B and C) * Parkinson's disease * Polio * Pompe disease * Prosaposin * Progeria * Pseudomyxoma peritonei * Psoriasis * Salla disease * Sandhoff disease * Sanfilippo A * Scheie syndrome * Schindler disease * Schizophrenia * Sialidosis (mucolipidosis I) * Sly syndrome * Spherocytosis * Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) * Spinocerebellar ataxia * Spreading adenocarcinoma * Systemic lupus erythematosus * Systemic sclerosis * Takayasu's arteritis (pulseless disease) * Tay-Sachs disease * Thalassemia * Wolan disease See Also
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