Talk:Adenoma

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Regarding Adrenal_adenoma could someone with sufficicient knowledge of the subject please merge that into this article and redirect? Richard cocks 23:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

For those who question the section on appendix cystadenoma, I can only defend myself by stating that I myself was operated on a month ago after a tumor was discovered in my appendix via a CAT scan and it was determined by the pathologist at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City to be cystadenoma.

Can someone please clarify: "Adrenal adenomas are common, 1 in 10 people have them malignant and asymptomatic ... About one in 10,000 is malignant." Does this mean that the average person has ~1000 adenoma since 1/10000 are malignant? 1000 per person divided by 10000 malignant occurance = 1 in 10 people? Or should the first "malignant" be "benign"? From an average person standpoint, this seems like a large number, and there is no reference for this to look further. I have found http://www.answers.com/topic/adenoma?cat=health which seems to be nearly a copy+paste of this entire paragraph, except that it says "benign" and not "malignant"... Thanks. Vulturelainen 20:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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I assessed the article as start class (see the infobox at the top of this talk page). The article needs more context, including a "see also" section, additional navboxes, and references. --Una Smith (talk) 22:19, 23 November 2007 (UTC)