List of incurable diseases
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The following is a list of debilitating diseases for which medical science has no cure. This list is incomplete.
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), see also HIV
- Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease)
- Aspartylglucosaminuria
- Asthma
- Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Avian influenza
- B-mannosidosis
- Batten disease (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, "mad cow" disease)
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), see also bovine spongiform encephalopathy and kuru
- Crohn's disease
- Currarino triad
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cystinosis
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Dysmyelogenic leukodystrophy (DMD, a.k.a. Alexander disease)
- Ebola
- Emphysema (C.O.P.D.)
- Farber disease
- Fatal familial insomnia
- Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
- Fucosidosis
- Galactosialidosis (Goldberg syndrome)
- Gaucher disease
- GM1 gangliodsidosis
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Heart disease (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy)-HCM or HOCM
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HVPS)
- Herpes zoster, a.k.a. varicella-zoster, a.k.a. chicken pox
- High grade astrocytoma (brain cancer)
- Hurler syndrome (includes Hurler-Scheie)
- Hunter syndrome
- Huntington's disease
- infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- Immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura
- Influenza
- Krabbe disease
- Kuru, see Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Lissencephaly
- Lymphocytic lymphomas
- Maroteaux-Lamy
- Measles
- Metastatic melanoma
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD)
- Morquio A
- Mucolipidosis II (I-cell Disease)
- Mucolipidosis IV
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Myasthenia gravis
- Niemann-Pick disease (All types: A, B and C)
- Parkinson's disease
- Polio
- Pompe disease
- Prosaposin
- Progeria
- Pseudomyxoma peritonei
- Psoriasis
- Salla disease
- Sandhoff disease
- Sanfilippo A
- Scheie syndrome
- Schindler disease
- Schizophrenia
- Sialidosis (mucolipidosis I)
- Sly syndrome
- Spherocytosis
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
- Spinocerebellar ataxia
- Spreading adenocarcinoma
- Takayasu's arteritis (pulseless disease)
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Thalassemia'(BLOOD DISEASE)'
- Wolan disease
