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In their recent edits, Una Smith and Casliber confuse the "tumor as neoplasm" and "tumor as swelling" concept, thus confusing the casual reader. Neoplasms are discussed in Neoplasm, Cancer, Carcinoma in-situ and Benign neoplasm. Swelling has its own article. Thus, Tumor is redundant and should be kept short. This was one the main reason for my rewrite of the article a few months ago. In a few days, I will revert to my last (May 20th) version. Please discuss here. Emmanuelm ( talk) 17:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
The lead picture of a swollen ankle is inappropriate and confusing. Since this article is about tumours, a discussion of differential diagnoses is appropriate (which includes swellings) but having one as the lead picture, along with a caption calling it a tumor is very misleading. Colin° Talk 21:12, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
The use of the term "cancer by definition is malignant" to me appears incorrect. Cancer can be malignant or begign - thats how cancers are "dangerous" (per se) or "not dangerous".
The Etymology section includes the phrase "non-neoplastic tumor", which makes no sense. -- Una Smith ( talk) 05:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
The article was shortened last year to redirect readers to the immensely more complete and academic Cancer article. Since, it has been enlarged, creating confusion instead of clarity. Please justify here before I revert to the November 4, 2008 version by Zigger. Emmanuelm ( talk) 14:44, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I've made some changes, which I hope don't confuse the matter, the reason why I want to do this was that I would be leaning on this article and its definition for the brain tumor lemma always prepared to discuss matters further -- DerekvG ( talk) 15:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
On the subject of Mitosis : Emmanuelm changed my addition about Mitosis. I know I'm not medically graduated so my knowledge is that of a well informed layman. I understand you remark an your correction : Mitosis is characteristic of any cell (also the healthy cell), but AFAIK Uncontrolled Mitosis is an essential characterisitic of a neoplasm (a tumor in the current -restricted- sense of the word). Perhaps my addition needs rephrasing but as such i would like to keep a reference to Mitosis in that sentence, because it explains what a tumor is all about. -- DerekvG ( talk) 00:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I removed four paragraphs that contained text belonging to other articles. Please keep this article short while re-directing the reader to cancer. Sorry for deleting your text. Emmanuelm ( talk) 02:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Again, I removed text and an image to keep the article lean, redirecting the reader to Cancer. Emmanuelm ( talk) 18:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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In their recent edits, Una Smith and Casliber confuse the "tumor as neoplasm" and "tumor as swelling" concept, thus confusing the casual reader. Neoplasms are discussed in Neoplasm, Cancer, Carcinoma in-situ and Benign neoplasm. Swelling has its own article. Thus, Tumor is redundant and should be kept short. This was one the main reason for my rewrite of the article a few months ago. In a few days, I will revert to my last (May 20th) version. Please discuss here. Emmanuelm ( talk) 17:31, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
The lead picture of a swollen ankle is inappropriate and confusing. Since this article is about tumours, a discussion of differential diagnoses is appropriate (which includes swellings) but having one as the lead picture, along with a caption calling it a tumor is very misleading. Colin° Talk 21:12, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
The use of the term "cancer by definition is malignant" to me appears incorrect. Cancer can be malignant or begign - thats how cancers are "dangerous" (per se) or "not dangerous".
The Etymology section includes the phrase "non-neoplastic tumor", which makes no sense. -- Una Smith ( talk) 05:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
The article was shortened last year to redirect readers to the immensely more complete and academic Cancer article. Since, it has been enlarged, creating confusion instead of clarity. Please justify here before I revert to the November 4, 2008 version by Zigger. Emmanuelm ( talk) 14:44, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
I've made some changes, which I hope don't confuse the matter, the reason why I want to do this was that I would be leaning on this article and its definition for the brain tumor lemma always prepared to discuss matters further -- DerekvG ( talk) 15:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
On the subject of Mitosis : Emmanuelm changed my addition about Mitosis. I know I'm not medically graduated so my knowledge is that of a well informed layman. I understand you remark an your correction : Mitosis is characteristic of any cell (also the healthy cell), but AFAIK Uncontrolled Mitosis is an essential characterisitic of a neoplasm (a tumor in the current -restricted- sense of the word). Perhaps my addition needs rephrasing but as such i would like to keep a reference to Mitosis in that sentence, because it explains what a tumor is all about. -- DerekvG ( talk) 00:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
I removed four paragraphs that contained text belonging to other articles. Please keep this article short while re-directing the reader to cancer. Sorry for deleting your text. Emmanuelm ( talk) 02:23, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Again, I removed text and an image to keep the article lean, redirecting the reader to Cancer. Emmanuelm ( talk) 18:54, 4 March 2011 (UTC)