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definitive treatment

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definitive treatment,
any therapy generally accepted as a specific cure of a disease. Compare expectant treatment, palliative treatment.


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By the time patients present to me, most will have tired of the daily application process and are looking for a more definitive treatment.
Patients referred by their GP with urgent suspected cancer and subsequently diagnosed as such by a cancer specialist must start definitive treatment within 62 days of receipt of referral, according to targets.
By the time he was finally referred appropriately he languished in an orthopaedic bed for several weeks before a tissue diagnosis was made and he could be referred for definitive treatment.
 
 
 
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