Talk:Osteosarcoma

message: This is a Osteosarcoma page for Humans and not dogs or cats.  Anything that references dogs and cats should be moved to a Canine Osteosarcoma page or a Feline Osteosarcoma page
:Generally sections of an article are only split off into their own articles when they become too long.  The title of this article is "osteosarcoma", not "osteosarcoma in humans".  However, if you feel strongly about it, I can create a new article and copy and paste the dog and cat info there.  The dog and cat sections need some expansion anyway.  --Joelmills 22:02, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animals 

message: Wikipedia's external links policy and the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles do not permit the inclusion of external links to non-encyclopedic material, particularly including:  patient support groups, personal experience/survivor stories, internet chat boards, e-mail discussion groups, recruiters for clinical trials, healthcare providers, fundraisers, or similar pages.  
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising opportunity or a support group for patients or their families.  Please do not re-insert links that do not conform to the standard rules.  
External links are not required in Wikipedia articles.  They are permitted in limited numbers and in accordance with the policies linked above.  If you want to include one or more external links in this article, please link directly to a webpage that provides detailed, encyclopedic information about the disease. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: I have removed the "best treatment" section because it's a blatant copyright violation from this page.  It also doesn't tell you anything at all about what the treatments actually are, which is a serious shortcoming.  Please feel free to provide useful, interesting, and properly sourced information (like the drugs used, instead of irrelevant bits, like the country of the publishing author), but please do not just copy information off of someone else's list.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment ranking 

message: I added the multiple issues tag to this section.  I'm not sure quite how it should be dealt with, because it could be useful to include information about acupuncture as a treatment, but this section has so many problems that maybe it should just be deleted and replaced.  First off, it seems to be written like an advertisement, and it just has one citation at the end, and that citation just lists a book without any page numbers or anything.  Secondly, it is unbelievably poorly written: the second paragraph is almost a complete repeat of the first; in each paragraph it is twice stated that "there are many benefits to acupuncture;" there are also numerous spelling and grammatical errors, and a lot of the language seems overly colloquial. ---Matt Lib Soc (talk) 03:36, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like someone addressed the problem by removing it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment and Prognosis - acupuncture section 

message: This article appears to have been updated with incorrect information in the past year. In the section titled "Treatment," it states that Mifamurtide is used after surgery to kill remaining tumor cells. Mifamurtide is only one of many chemo drugs that are used against osteosarcoma, and, while it is available in the the EU, it is not even approved in the U.S. The next sentence states that rotationplasty
is a surgical option after the tumor has been removed. Rotationplasty is a form of amputation that can be done at the time the knee section containing the tumor is removed. It is not a subsequent surgery.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.163.192.189 (talk) 14:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Updates 

message: The section on causes takes the time to dispel the existence of a link between water fluoridation and osteosarcoma, which is good, but then it digresses, discussing the general benefits of water fluoridation. --Ori.livneh (talk) 07:18, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight given to debunking fluoridation as a cause 

message: This is one of the most popular pages in Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine's scope.  Very few editors watch WT:VET's pages, which means that questions may not be answered in a timely manner.  If you are an active editor and interested in animals or veterinary medicine, please put WT:VET on your watchlist.  Thank you,  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:01, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:VET 

message: I still don’t understand 95.149.105.131 (talk) 17:55, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Understanding 

message: This revert was justified because a) it is early-stage in vitro and in vivo primary research which the user  is attempting to promote from their own lab studies, WP:SOAPBOX, and b) an evident and undeclared WP:COI is at work. Tlisse has been edit-warring here to the point of WP:3RR and on other articles. Better to wait a few years for the concept to be confirmed and included in an independent WP:MEDRS review. Zefr (talk) 22:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that WP:MEDPRI sources are not generally appropriate for this article.  When the information appears in a review article, it could be added and the review cited.  When that happens, I encourage editors to remember that we need to Cite sources, don't describe them.  That could be as simple as "the metastastic process involves the Vitamin D receptor and SNAI2", without saying anything about the experimental design.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lab research too preliminary for the encyclopedia