spontaneous remission
Disease retreats mysteriously
Spontaneous remission is the unexpected disappearance or significant improvement of a disease without treatment, or with treatment considered inadequate to produce such results.
The term appears most often in discussions of cancer, where tumors occasionally shrink or vanish for reasons medicine cannot fully explain: The oncologist documented a case of spontaneous remission.
The phenomenon fuels both legitimate research and false hope in alternative medicine claims.
- unexplainedNot yet clarified
- medical mysteryUnexplained illness or condition
- healingRestoration of health
- miracleSupernatural occurrence beyond explanation
- act of GodUnforeseeable natural catastrophe
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