# New Oncology Archetypes

**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/new-oncology-archetypes/1308
**Category:** Clinical
**Tags:** archetype
**Created:** [22 February 2021 09:00 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/new-oncology-archetypes/1308 "2021-02-22T09:00:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 32

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![siljelb](https://discourse.openehr.org/user_avatar/discourse.openehr.org/siljelb/32/12_2.png) [@siljelb](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/siljelb)
#### Post date: [21 June 2021 14:58 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/new-oncology-archetypes/1308/32 "2021-06-21T14:58:43Z")

</div>

> [@damoca](#):
>
> Off-topic: Is this a policy or a software limitation?

It’s a policy. Translations are always done from the original language to avoid a “telephone game” situation where the semantics diverge between the translations. Having any other language than English as the original makes this a difficult proposition. 🙂

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/new-oncology-archetypes/1308)._