Cancer information shouldn’t depend on which language you read in.
We translate our content ahead of time and publish it as real pages — reviewed and checked for accuracy — instead of relying on your browser to translate it on the fly.
Why we don’t just let your browser translate it
Browser and widget translation (like a right-click “Translate this page”) seems convenient, but on medical content it creates real problems:
- Not indexable — the translated text never appears in the page's HTML, so search engines can't find it and readers searching in their own language never see us
- No medical glossary — a generic translator doesn't know that "benign," "in situ," or "palliative" need careful, consistent handling
- No review step — the words a reader sees were never checked by anyone before appearing on screen
- Breaks structured data and hreflang — the signals that help the right language version reach the right reader
A generic translator is exactly the kind of tool that can mistranslate precise medical terms — the difference between “benign” and “malignant,” or a subtlety like “in situ,” is not something we’re willing to leave to chance.
Our approach: real pages, checked before they’re published
Built at publish time, not read time
We generate real translated pages ahead of time and save them as actual files — the same kind of page as our English articles, not text swapped in by a browser extension after the page loads.
A locked medical termbase
Sensitive terms are protected during translation so precise medical language doesn't drift or get mistranslated by a general-purpose engine.
Scored against a human baseline
Before we trust machine translation in a given language, we measure it — comparing machine output against articles a human has already translated, to get a real error rate rather than assume the tool got it right.
Indexable and shareable
Because the translation lives in the actual page, it can be found by search engines, linked to directly, and cited — not lost the moment a reader closes their browser.
Where we are today
- Spanish is our most complete translated section today; other languages are rolling out only after their measured accuracy clears our bar.
- Machine translation is a starting point, not a finished product — we keep testing and correcting it, especially for medical terms where a small error can matter.
- If a translated page reads oddly or seems wrong, please tell us — every report helps us fix that language faster.