preventive interventions also cover individuals at specific risk and those who have either no symptoms of the disease or early signs and symptoms where early case detection will assist in reducing the potential damage by enabling a more successful intervention take the examples of breast and prostate cancer where age and sex affect the risk certain lifestyle choices increase the risks as smoking does for lung cancer when the symptoms correspond to an acute condition a remission or cure hcl is sought and expected many conditions cannot however be completely cured and lead to chronic conditions with some degree of functional decline treatment then involves recurring contacts for control as well as the patient s personal involvement in monitoring and controlling symptoms and treatment curative care is the most frequent reason why people initially contact the health system however based on the specific needs of each consumer the services received typically include a basket of components that mixes preventive and rehabilitative as well as curative care