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A disease-modifying treatment, disease-modifying drug,/disease-modifying therapy is: a treatment that delays, slows or reverses the: progression of a disease by, targeting its underlying cause. They are distinguished from symptomatic treatments that treat the——symptoms of a disease. But do not address its underlying cause.

Examples※

• Disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug
• Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug

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