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Yesterday, I published an update to the 2018 research paper A Definition and Exploration of Cure<\/a>. When the paper was originally published, I had not yet understood the concept of present cause, that only addressing a present cause can produce a cure. This paper is now aligned with the latest editions of the paper A Theory of Cure<\/a> and the books A Calculus of Curing<\/a>, Cure<\/a>, and The Elements of Cure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in understanding the latest theories about cure, read this paper or the other material. You can search elsewhere for competing theories – good luck. There are no other general theories of cure in today’s conventional or alternative medical practices.<\/p>\n

A bit of history of my research into a theory of cure.<\/p>\n

In May, 2012 I began to notice huge cracks in the medical concept of cure, and in 2014 published the post Why Can’t We Cure?<\/a>\u00a0 where I documented my research findings that there was (and still is) no scientific medical definition of the word cure. I noted that of the top ten best selling medicines from 2011, not one could cure any disease – of the top 70 best selling drugs in 2013 none cured any disease.<\/p>\n

In 2013, I published The Myth of Alternative Medicines<\/a> – the myth that alternative medicines actually exist as a scientific concept – which was also published in Spanish as El Mito de las Medicinas Alternatives<\/a>. The original post was updated in 2016 as I learned more.<\/p>\n

As I looked closer, it only got worse. In November 2014, I published a report of Diseases Cured, but not by Medicines<\/a>, where I noted that most medicines are symptomicines<\/a> – addressing signs and symptoms of disease – with no attempts to cure.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As I studied chronic diseases, and reported that\u00a0The Center for Managing Chronic Disease says “Chronic Disease is a long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured.<\/em>” and added, they are simply wrong. What they should have said is:\u00a0Chronic disease cannot be cured by medicines and I\u00a0 published How Cesar Milan Cures Chronic Illness.<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2015, I published the A Theory of Cure<\/a>, a first exploration of the concept of cure, there being no published comprehensive theory of cure in any medical text or reference. I proposed a simple theory of cure based on a tautology “every curable illness can be cured<\/em>” and a simple concept “an illness is cured when the cause has been successfully addressed.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

In August 2015, I concluded that no-one could find a cure for cancer, simply because cancer cured is not medically defined. I wrote a hypothetical story of two doctors, caught in a Cancer Cure Catch-22<\/a>, one enthusiastic to find a cure, and the other pointing out that there is no medical test for cancer cured – so no cures can be found, if found they cannot be proven. Since then I learned that not one of the 64000 clinical studies into cancer treatments contains a definition of and test for cancer cured. If a cure occurs in one of those clinical studies, it is out of scope and cannot be documented. I also checked, the multi-billion dollar US 21st Century Cures Project does not contain a definition of cancer cured and does not require one for funding grant approval.<\/p>\n

In September, I wrote a hypothetical discussion between two doctors debating the meaning of cure, and being confused when the actually consult medical references like Websters Dictionary for English Learners, which defines CURE as “the act of making someone healthy again after an illness,<\/a>” as if we only cure after the illness is gone. And a second post, Understanding Medical Cures<\/a>, where the doctors continued their frustrating exploration of cure in major medical reference texts.<\/p>\n

In November 2105, I published Myths and Realities about Cures,<\/a> where I documented and countered many myths, including:<\/p>\n