disease-modifying therapy

C7044
concept

A disease-modifying therapy is a treatment that alters the underlying course or mechanisms of a disease to slow its progression, reduce long-term damage, or change its overall outcome rather than just alleviating symptoms.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
targeted cancer therapy 13
disease-modifying therapy canonical 5
disease-modifying antirheumatic drug 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: disease-modifying therapy
Generated description
A disease-modifying therapy is a treatment that alters the underlying course or mechanisms of a disease to slow its progression, reduce long-term damage, or change its overall outcome rather than just alleviating symptoms.

Instances (24)

Instance Via concept surface
risdiplam disease-modifying therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
Tegsedi transthyretin-directed therapy
methotrexate disease-modifying antirheumatic drug
Plegridy
Tecfidera
Amvuttra transthyretin-directed therapy
Tagrisso targeted cancer therapy
Lynparza targeted cancer therapy
Symbicort asthma maintenance therapy
Imbruvica targeted cancer therapy
fingolimod
ocrelizumab
larotrectinib targeted cancer therapy
selpercatinib targeted cancer therapy
LOXO-292 targeted cancer therapy
Vitrakvi targeted cancer therapy
Retevmo targeted cancer therapy
Evrysdi
LOXO-195 targeted cancer therapy
LOXO-305 targeted cancer therapy
Gleevec targeted cancer therapy
Venclexta targeted cancer therapy
Alecensa targeted cancer therapy
sulfasalazine disease-modifying antirheumatic drug