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I explain the differences between acute and chronic disease.

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The differences between acute and chronic disease are contrasted.

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It is similar to acute and chronic diseases in other fields of medicine. With a chronic illness you mean a condition with a protracted long time course. It may be eventually fatal but will in such a case not lead to a quick death. Often - but not exactly necessary for the name - it also means that though the course may be influenced by therapy it is anyway incurable. Outside oncology that is not necessarily the case. A ...

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