treatment-naïve
No prior therapy
Treatment-naïve describes a patient who has never received treatment for a particular condition.
The term appears frequently in medical research and clinical trials, where treatment-naïve patients provide baseline data unaffected by prior interventions: The study enrolled only treatment-naïve HIV patients.
The opposite is treatment-experienced.
clinical
Not given care
- first-lineTried before alternatives
- baselineStandard for comparison
- drug-naïveWithout prior medication exposure
- unmedicatedNot taking medicine
research
Group sharing circumstances
- enrollmentAct of registering officially
- placebo-controlledTested against inactive substance
- randomizationIntroducing chance systematically
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
untreated
Not given care
- first-lineTried before alternatives
- baselineStandard for comparison
- drug-naïveWithout prior medication exposure
cohort
Group sharing circumstances
- enrollmentAct of registering officially
- placebo-controlledTested against inactive substance
- randomizationIntroducing chance systematically
antiretroviral
Drug blocking viral reproduction
metastatic
Having spread from origin
treatment, naive, treat, treats, treated, treating, treatable, untreatable, maltreatment