They are generally considered to be not only incurable but also untreatable. Multiple myeloma is considered treatable, but generally incurable. Oligodendrogliomas are incurable but slowly progressive malignant brain tumors. Covetousness constitutes a disease that is incurable. He suffered severe pain in his abdomen, which doctors told him was chronic and incurable. He made a distinction between curable and incurable diseases. Single or chronic exposure can lead to berylliosis, an incurable lung condition. Nausea and other symptoms related to incurable diseases may also be managed with hypnosis. Struggling professionally, he is struck by an incurable and fatal illness. This is an incomplete list of incurable diseases. His father committed suicide while suffering from incurable lung cancer when Bill was 18. He first appears in "Advent Children" as a sufferer of the incurable disease Geostigma. It may also be used palliatively, to relieve symptoms in patients with incurable cancers. They explain that over 1300 years prior, humanity faced extinction due to an incurable disease. The city is hit with an incurable and unknown disease.