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English translation: People/subjects with no history of cancer

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02:19 Jun 23, 2011

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Japanese term or phrase: がん未経験者

The research paper that I am working on has がん経験者 as well as がん未経験者. I guess I understand their meanings, however, I am unable to come up with a concise term for がん未経験者. For がん経験者, I am inclining towards Cancer Survivors. Any suggestions for がん未経験者?

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English translation:People/subjects with no history of cancer

Explanation:
がん経験者: people/patients/subjects with a history of cancer

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Carlis Hsu
Local time: 11:19

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4 +8

People/subjects with no history of cancer

Carlis Hsu

4 -1

Cancer-naive patients|subjects

Steven F Smith

Persons who have never been diagnosed cancer; persons who have no cancer diagnosis history

MariyaN

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23 mins confidence:

Persons who have never been diagnosed cancer; persons who have no cancer diagnosis history

Explanation:
I do not think "survivor" would be a good term for がん経験者 since the word 経験者 does not necessarily mean that the person survived. Although it's possible that "survivor' is still suitable for your context.

MariyaN
United States
Local time: 23:19
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

People/subjects with no history of cancer

Explanation:
がん経験者: people/patients/subjects with a history of cancer

Carlis Hsu
Local time: 11:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 38

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5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Cancer-naive patients|subjects

Explanation:
"X-naive" is a nice, concice way of expressing the idea that the person has no history of the condition (or, in its more frequent usage, no history of drug treatment (e.g belimumab-naive patients)).

I've seen it used in the Lancet, and you'll get some hits online (a lot for "HIV-naive patients", a few for 'cancer-naive patients').

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E.g.
The impact of statin on immune activation, which has been recently shown in HIV-naive patients, might be the mechanism by which the hsCRP level was influenced [18]
http://www.natap.org/2011/HIV/051011_02.htm

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Bearing in mind that 'XXX-naive' is a common enough expression in medical English, I wonder if translators who criticize this expression as 'awkward' or unlikely to be understood by the target readership would actually advise a native English author of a medical research paper to avoid the expression? It does the job perfectly well for those who write, read and understand such papers.

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Well, having reading a bit more I probably wouldn't use -naive to mean 'having no history of a condition/disease' in general. The implication is rather that there has been no exposure to a particular drug, virus, antigen, etc., so I would definitely defend its use in, for example, 'aspirin naive subject' , 'HIV naive patient', 'X antigen naive cells', etc.

Steven F Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:19
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 54

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