Talk:Leiomyosarcoma

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
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Survivor stories
I removed the "survivor stories" tag from the external links because patient support/individual experiences/survivor stories is exactly the kind of thing that Wikipedia policies do not support, especially in medicine-related articles. "My personal experience" is not "encyclopedic content" under any circumstances. This link is already quite questionable (=technically banned except under unusual circumstances) because it's an individual's personal website. So my thought was that if we didn't advertise the link as being about survivor stories, maybe no one else would notice that we're ignoring the policy here. However, if we're going to do this, I need you (all of you) to quit restoring the description that will ultimately get this link deleted.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reply here. Please also read WP:EL carefully if you want to know more about Wikipedia's external links policy, and WP:MEDMOS for medicine-related standards. It is important when you read these pages that the overall goal is to have as few external links as possible: Wikipedia is NOT a collection of website links. (As a short summary, one rule of thumb is that a link should contain only the kinds of detailed information that a teenager might need for writing an old-fashioned essay on the subject.) Hope this helps explain the issue. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:08, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Error
"(When benign, it is called a leiomyoma.)" -- NO. Leiomyosarcoma is NEVER called a leiomyoma. They are two, very different, tumors of totally different cellular structure. This wiki page is being cited on support groups as being the source for cancer information on fibroids. Totally out of line. Please tag this wiki entry as needing an expert's input as it is medically irresponsible in it's current state. Carla Dionne, Executive Director, National Uterine Fibroids Foundation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.25.189.33 (talk) 00:58, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).  WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Ms. Dionne is absolutely right, especially down to the picture. This is one of those instances where oncology nomenclature does not follow normal paths and while the article is about a leiomyosarcoma, the picture is of a leiomyoma, two totally different beasts.  I will remove the picture immediately since it's completely wrong, and wait for a real one to come in.--Cpt ricard (talk) 07:12, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: BioC 7210 - Wikipedia Editing for Health Care Professionals
— Assignment last updated by Leximed (talk) 20:35, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Workplan Assignment Submission for BIOC 7210 Class
- Article chosen: I have chosen to work on the Leiomyosarcoma article because oncology is something I am interested in. Women’s health interests me, and this is a cancer that occurs in the uterus in addition to other smooth muscles in the body. From my quick google scholar search, there are several review articles on this disease, and there is an article on a drug that can be used to treat it on PCORI.

 Current rating : Start-class, mid importance. Part of the WikiProject Medicine group.

- Teammates/Roles in the Project: I am currently the only one working on this article.

- Initial Analysis of the article: I think that the Leiomyosarcoma article currently looks fine. It has the definitions, mechanism, diagnosis, and treatment. This is all pertinent information that readers will want to know, and it certainly gives me a good starting point, however I believe that these can be built upon.

- '''Overall organizations? What will you add/change?:''' I think that the organization of the article looks great for now. Nothing changes in terms of organization.

I will add more information under the diagnosis section and I would like to add the proper differences between leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas. Since there are multiple areas of the body that leiomyosarcomas can occur, if I have the time, I would like to add paragraphs on the most common regions and their presentations. I’ll add more info on the treatment aspect, e.g., the medication mentioned in PCORI. Finally, I would like to add info about screening as well as epidemiology.

- What will you remove?: I do not think the “notable cases” section is necessary here, henceforth I might recommend that this be removed.

- What will you augment?: The diagnosis section definitely needs more information, and the citation is not included as of now. In the “treatment” section, I can also add information on how it can be managed.

- What will you decrease coverage of?: The “notable cases” section.

- Team coordination plan: I plan on working on this article twice weekly or as my schedule permits until the due date, which is 7 weeks from now.

- '''Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources?''' - some of the citations/sources come from blog sites/news website which are against the rule of neutrality. Additionally, the newest citation on the page is from 2019 and I will be sure to add newer, more recent sources. Sweetiepie9192 (talk) 06:22, 8 September 2023 (UTC)