Talk:Cancer

Article Checklist for "Cancer"

Workgroup category or categories	Health Sciences Workgroup, Biology Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	-Versuri 07:08, 23 March 2007 (CDT)

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Plan for article

General:This introductory article on "cancer" is aimed at the lay reader, and must be sensitive to the fact that an individual who is worried about having cancer, or who has just received a diagnosis of cancer-for themselves or a loved one- is likely to be among its readers. Since the article must be scientifically and medically correct, it is always tempting to write in the sort of technical medical terms that are found in medical textbooks-but that temptation must be resisted here if Citizendium is to offer a freely accessible neutral and accurate source of information on this very important topic. It is harder and not easier to write folk-level prose about such subjects, and remain accurate, and I beg the authors here to consider carefully before revising text on the basis of it not sounding "scientific". If the concepts are there but the jargon is not then I argue it is scientific and also serves a public service that is abandoned when technical language is used. Terms must be explained so that an intelligent but naive user can follow the text.However, that text must convey high level information, and lead (with links) to a thorough presentation of thge subject. Nancy Sculerati MD 06:35, 19 March 2007 (CDT)

Something to think about, and speaking here as husband of an eleven-year survivor: a lot of people who read this article will have cancer or be connected to such a person. How about a section on psycho-social aspects of cancer? Stephen Ewen 12:32, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Note about Wikipedia article

I looked at thye Wikipedia article before beginning this from scratch. There is much useful information there, but it does not distinguish between epithelial malignancies as cancers upfront and it is rather patchwork. I began from scratch because I felt it would be easier and quicker to obtain a Citizendium article by doing so, rather than by revising. Editing that article was very unappealing to me. Nancy Sculerati MD 08:44, 19 March 2007 (CDT)

I think as far as individual cancers go, we could simply link to them instead of presenting a synopsis of them here. I have a little framework for an oversimplified article I can show you. Ill send you the link when I have it up.--Peter A. Lipson 12:23, 2 May 2007 (CDT)

I think too much text per section scares people, so in final versions, we may wish to keep individual sections brief enough to be palatable.--Peter A. Lipson 13:38, 2 May 2007 (CDT)