Talk:Renal cell carcinoma
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[edit] Sunitinib and vast improvement - Misleading?
I'm not sure people reading this article would want to know what "vast improvement" means, but if I were reading it, I'd probably guess that "vast improvement" means possibly living long enough to die of some other cause -- say, at least a few years. I think what we are talking about here is a treatment effect measured in weeks, not months, and certainly not years. I'm ambivalent about the value of truthfulness here -- but isn't an encyclopedia meant to be be the straight truth?
Anybody in favor of including the detail of how many weeks of disease free progression we are really talking about compared to placebo?
Tombadog (talk) 23:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NEJM review
There's a NEJM review here. Anyone interested? JFW | T@lk 23:27, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Kidney Cancer redirect
I don't think the search term "kidney cancer" should necessarily redirect here, seeing as Nephroblastoma/Wilm's tumor is another fairly common kidney cancer (although it is usally seen in children rather than adults. There are also rhabdoid kidney tumors. Seeing as there are different kinds of kidney cancer, I think the redirect should be changed, perhaps to a disambiguation page. Dylan Slade 01:06, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. deBronkart 02:50, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Definition of "Gross Examination"
The revision "11:25, 5 March 2007 71.216.118.181" removed the word "gross" from the phrase "gross examination". I restored the word because its absence significantly alters the meaning of the sentence. Specifically, gross examination refers to a macroscopic examination, i.e. with the naked eye, as opposed to, for example, microscopic examination or chemical analysis.[1] PHaze 23:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Typo and citations
I submit this with hesitation because I'm new and I know it's important not to behave cluelessly here. But, I'm a patient with this cancer and I want to contribute, so here I am. Tell me where to go to learn more about editing, if you want.
How do I properly edit the article to handle these items?
1. Furhman is actually Fuhrman (and ought to have its own article). (I figured out the typo myself.)
2. A lot of widely known stats about RCC are obsolete. The ones shown here appear more modern, but they ought to cite their source. How do I add an "attribution needed" mark? --Update: Thanks to Derwig for the tip.
deBronkart 20:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
