Translating for patients: approaching and adapting as a translating method

Abstract

There are a lot of scientific publications related to cancer regarding the latest advances about its prevention, early detection, symptomatology, treatment and other issues derived from a carcinogenic process. However, most of these papers are in English, the basic vehicular language, and we can find its complex technolect in all of them; a technolect which is quite difficult to understand by the patient. With the aim of informing about this scientific knowledge in a clear and concise way for the patient, in the present work, we will propose some guidelines for the correct translation and adaptation of the mentioned texts in a direct and closer way to the patient.