disease progression
Condition getting worse
Disease progression is the worsening or advancement of a disease over time.
The term describes how a condition develops through stages, spreads to new areas, or becomes more severe: The drug slowed disease progression significantly.
In chronic conditions like cancer or Alzheimer's, tracking disease progression guides treatment decisions and helps predict outcomes.
- early detectionFinding something at onset
- medicationsSubstances treating medical conditions
- biomarkersMeasurable disease indicators
- relapseReturn to former illness
- acute phaseSevere onset period
early stage · exacerbation · getting worse · inflammation · staging · angiogenesis · irreversible · point of no return · fibrosis · genetic mutations · neurodegeneration · trajectory · slowing down · survival rate · quality of life · end stage · necrosis · histopathology
- medical outcomessurvival rate, cure rate, mortality, death rate, remission
- medical stagesacute phase, recovery phase, late stage, early-stage, advanced stage
- prognosispoor prognosis, favorable, unfavorable, guarded, grim
- pathologycancer, infection, tumor, lesion, lesions
- anatomy diagramsanatomy chart, anatomy poster, muscle diagram, body systems, labeled diagram
- disease causesetiology, causation, pathogens, genetics, infection
disease progressionremission
Temporary disease absence
regression · spontaneous remission · recovery · healing · stabilization