How to Use curable in a Sentence

curable

adjective
  • Most cases are curable with proper treatment.
  • In this case, curable means six rounds of chemo, each round lasting five days.
    Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • 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
  • The good news was that the doctors told him it one of the most curable forms of cancer.
    Tom Green | [email protected], al, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Those are illnesses that should be curable.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The good news is that gonorrhea is curable with the right treatment.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For most long-haulers, the illness is neither fatal nor curable.
    Shayna Skarf, STAT, 28 Jan. 2021
  • Cancers that have spread, known as metastatic disease, are rarely curable.
    Robert Gatenby, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Colon cancer is curable in nearly all cases if it is found early.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, Giordano points out that breast cancer is often curable.
    Korin Miller, Flow Space, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most curable form of skin cancer.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Cancers on the vocal cords are curable, but those that grow on or below the cords are much harder to treat.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Melanoma is curable when detected and removed at an early stage.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
  • Charli isn’t pretending the world’s ills are curable through a sweaty night dancing with friends.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
  • 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
  • While polio is not curable, there is an effective vaccine to prevent it.
    Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • These days, leprosy is curable but continues to affect tens of thousands each year.
    Kathleen M. Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The disease is now curable if caught and treated early with antibitoics.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In this book, Green presents TB as very much a present, fatal, yet curable concern.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer, but also the most curable form.
    CBS News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Doctors told the couple that Wilkin’s cancer was treatable, but not curable.
    Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 26 June 2018
  • With quick access to antibiotics sepsis can be curable, Archer says.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 28 May 2025
  • But most of the time, metastatic cancer is considered treatable, not curable.
    Ashley Abramson, Allure, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The couple are very optimistic because both their cancers are curable.
    Megan Harney, Good Housekeeping, 19 June 2015
  • Subungual melanoma is curable when it’s detected in an early stage.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The disease is curable with antibiotics.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When caught in the earliest stage, skin cancer is completely curable.
    Noma Nazish, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In this case, photo-curable resin is the print material instead of a solid spool.
    Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
  • This creates a perfect storm for a surge in Lyme disease, which is curable for most people.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024

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