Pelangi Petang Production

In my previous physiology lecture, my lecturer had mentioned about terminal disease. I was wondering about the meaning of it and I want to know what is it, what kind of disease that they defined as terminal disease, so I jot down the term and today I Google-ed it.

Terminal disease is a disease that cannot be cured and will cause death. Oh, how scary. The patients with terminal diseases are termed as terminal patients. A patient is considered as terminally ill when he or she was medically diagnosed with malignant diseases* with life expectancy less than six months. They are not necessarily died though.

Certain types of cancers and diseases related to our vital organs like kidney failure, liver failure and heart diseases can be considered as terminal diseases. Although kidney and liver failure can be slowed down by doing organ transplant, they are still considered as fatal. AIDS also can be categorized as terminal disease which cannot be cured and will lead to death. But occasionally, AIDS patients died because of infections since their immune system has been suppressed by the HIV virus.

*Malignant diseases are life-threatening diseases. The opposite of it is benign which means mild or non-progressive diseases (not life-threatening).

I think maybe I can write more about health sciences based on what I’m learning and the knowledge I have in this area. Maybe it is useful to someone somehow.