List of Currently Incurable Diseases
Synopsis: Listing of diseases considered to be incurable including disorders of both infectious and non-infectious, neoplastic, autoimmune, genetic, or metabolic that have no known current cure.1
Author: Disabled World Contact: Disabled World (www.disabled-world.com)
Published: 2020-06-07 Updated: 2020-12-23
Key Points:
Although many incurable diseases are often terminal, there are also many incurable conditions that that a person can live with all their life.
Eradication of a disease is considered permanent and global, elimination of a disease is an achievement restricted to a specific geographic location.
Main Digest
Our incomplete list of incurable diseases also include rare diseases which are often genetic in nature. Incurable diseases are considered to be disorders of both infectious and non-infectious, neoplastic, autoimmune, genetic, or metabolic in nature that have no known current cure.
Terminal illnesses include conditions such as late stage cancer, AIDS and some forms of heart disease. Although many incurable diseases are often terminal, there are also many incurable conditions that that a person can live with all their life.
Medical conditions such as diabetes, asthma, Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, cannot be "cured," but they can be managed. In the past, medical treatment was all about treating the disease, but these days, many doctors have shifted their focus to the patient themselves, rather than just the disease.
Illustration of hospital symbols, medicine, health care, disease, doctor and two nurses.
Disease Eradication
The ultimate goal in the fight against diseases is their eradication.
In theory, many diseases could be eradicated, in practice, only a handful of diseases meet the criteria that make them eradicable with current knowledge, institutions, and technology.
The eradication of a disease is considered to be permanent and global, while the elimination of a disease is classified as an achievement restricted to a specific geographic location.
| List of Incurable Diseases |
|---|
| A |
| Allergic Diseases |
| Asthma |
| Adrenocortical carcinoma |
| Alzheimer's Disease |
| Alopecia |
| Ankylosing Spondylitis |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) |
| Arthritis |
| Ataxia |
| C |
| Cancer |
| Cerebral amyloid angiopathy |
| Chronic Kidney Disease |
| Common cold |
| Coronavirus |
| Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease |
| Crohn's Disease |
| Coeliac Disease |
| Cystic fibrosis |
| Corneal ulcer |
| D |
| Desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor |
| Diabetes |
| Dupuytren's Disease |
| Dengue |
| Depression |
| E |
| Ebola |
| Epilepsy |
| F |
| Factor V Leiden |
| Fatal familial insomnia |
| Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder |
| Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva |
| Fluoroquinolone toxicity syndrome |
| G |
| Gastroparesis |
| Genetic Disease |
| Glioblastoma |
| Graves Disease |
| H |
| Hepatitis B |
| Herpes simplex |
| HIV/AIDS |
| Huntington's Disease |
| Hearing loss (sensorineural) |
| Hereditary multiple exostoses |
| I |
| Interstitial cystitis or Bladder Pain Syndrome |
| Irritable bowel syndrome |
| Immune Thrombocytopenia |
| J |
| Joint pain |
| L |
| Leukemia |
| Lichen planus |
| Systemic lupus erythematosus |
| Lymphedema |
| M |
| Macular degeneration |
| Marburg virus |
| Multiple sclerosis |
| Muscular dystrophy |
| Myasthenia gravis |
| N |
| Norovirus |
| Naegleria fowleri |
| Narcolepsy |
| O |
| Obesity |
| Osteoporosis |
| Osteogenesis imperfecta |
| P |
| Parkinson's Disease |
| Paraphilia disorder |
| Pityriasis rubra pilaris |
| Prion Diseases |
| Progeria |
| Polio |
| Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
| Pre-eclampsia |
| Psoriasis |
| Pulmonary hypertension |
| Pulmonary fibrosis |
| Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome |
| R |
| Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Rabies |
| Rett syndrome |
| S |
| Schizophrenia |
| Scleroderma |
| Scoliosis |
| Spinocerebellar ataxia |
| Severe acute respiratory syndrome |
| T |
| Trigeminal neuralgia |
| Toxoplasmosis |
| U |
| Ulcerative colitis |
| Urethral stricture |
| X |
| Xeroderma pigmentosum |
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