medical breakthrough
Major health advance
A medical breakthrough is a significant advance in treating, preventing, or understanding disease—a discovery that changes what's possible in medicine.
The term implies crossing a threshold: what was previously untreatable becomes treatable, what was fatal becomes survivable.
Researchers announced a medical breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy.
The phrase sometimes gets applied loosely to preliminary findings that may not pan out.
- discoveryAct of finding something
- drug discoveryDeveloping new therapeutic compounds
- cureTreatment that heals
- cancer cureMalignancy-eliminating treatment
- innovationCreating something original
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- breakthrougheureka, aha moment, epiphany, revelation, realization
- medical researchclinical trial, drug trial, cancer research, clinical trials, clinical research
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