Depends on the dz: There are known natural histories of diseases that have been documented before there were treatments. How fast a disease progresses depends on which disease it is, whether the current treatments are disease-modifying or symptomatic, and how severe the clinical phenotype of that particular disease is in the individual patient
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Highly variable: A ruptured aneurysm could be instantaneous and deadly. Alzheimer's could last 10 yrs. There are no hard and fast rules for any of this, as individuals vary biologically, and genetically.
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