Disease-modifying treatment

A disease-modifying treatment, disease-modifying drug, or disease-modifying therapy is a treatment that delays, slows or reverses the progression of a disease by targeting its underlying cause.^[1] They are distinguished from symptomatic treatments that treat the symptoms of a disease but do not address its underlying cause.^[2]

Examples

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