Letter to the Editor
Regarding androgen deprivation therapy, we must use the correct Spanish translation for deprivation, privación; not the anglicism deprivación
Abandonemos el anglicismo «deprivación» por el uso correcto del término «privación» en relación con la terapia de privación androgénica
J. Muñoz-Rodríguez
, A. Domínguez
Corresponding author
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
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The use of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">deprivación</span> is extensive and widely applied in any course, conference or congress in Spanish related to prostate cancer.</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Deprivación</span> is an anglicism that comes from deprivation. It is very frequently mentioned in prostate cancer guides concerning androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and usually leads us to use the mistaken abbreviation <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">TDA</span> in our language to refer to <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">terapia de “deprivación” androgénica</span>.</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">If we look for the meaning of <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">deprivación</span> in a dictionary, we would expect to find that it refers to the act of depriving or to the lack of something. The problem arises when we want to search for the definition of the word <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">“deprivación”</span> and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">“deprivar”</span> (to deprive, in english) in any Spanish dictionary, including the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE, Spanish acronym): we would be surprised to find out that this word is neither in the physical dictionary nor on its website <a href="https://dle.rae.es">https://dle.rae.es</a>.</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The correct translation of the English word deprivation into Spanish should be <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privación</span>, and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">TPA</span> (<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">terapia de privación androgénica</span>) for ADT (androgen deprivation therapy).</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">According to the RAE, in its last update in 2018, the word <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privación</span><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> is defined as follows: from Latin <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privatio, privationis</span>.<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">1</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">f. To take away, to prevent or to deprive.</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">f. Absence or lack of something in someone who could have it.</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">f. Punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to occupy specific positions or to engage in specific activities, for a committed crime.</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0020"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">4</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">f. The state of being kept from enjoying</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">5</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">f. Voluntary renunciation of something.</p></li></ul></p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Therefore, with regards to the first definition of the word, androgen deprivation would be the action of depriving of androgens, or according to the second one, the lack or absence of androgens.</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The anglicism <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">“deprivación”</span> as translation of the term deprivation has not only been used in urology. Already in 1999, Navarro and González de Dios,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> in their article <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">“</span>English expressions of difficult or misleading translation in Paediatrics<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">”</span>, recommend avoiding the use of such anglicism and translating it as <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privación</span> (take away), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">deshabituación</span> (divest), <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">carencia</span> (lack of) or <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">pérdida</span> (lose), according to the context. As an example, they say that ‘emotional <span class="elsevierStyleBold">deprivation</span>’ is translated into <span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">carencia</span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">afectiva</span> or <span class="elsevierStyleBold"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privación</span></span><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">de afecto</span>.</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Let us make the effort and not deprive ourselves of making proper use of such a rich language as Spanish and use the term <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">privación</span>. Let us say <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">terapia de privación androgénica</span> or look for other synonyms such as <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">supresión</span> (suppression), if desired.</p></span>" "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "fechaRecibido" => "2019-10-28" "fechaAceptado" => "2019-11-30" "NotaPie" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "etiqueta" => "☆" "nota" => "<p class="elsevierStyleNotepara" id="npar0005">Please cite this article as: Muñoz-Rodríguez J, Domínguez A. Abandonemos el anglicismo «deprivación» por el uso correcto del término «privación» en relación con la terapia de privación androgénica. 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