Because curative doses for many abdominal or pelvic tumors range between 50 and 75 Gy, enteritis is likely to occur.

Similarly, many of the common, moderately radioresponsive tumors are routinely treated with curative doses of radiation therapy if they are at an early stage.

The problem with mercury was that the curative dose was much too close to the lethal dose, and it was easy to make the patient worse as a result of treatment.

IPTp consists in the administration of a single curative dose of an efficacious anti-malarial drug at least twice during pregnancy - regardless whether or not the woman is infected.