Talk:Throat cancer

Misspelling
This article's title is misspelled. It belongs in the Head and Neck Cancer article. I think it should be merged. By the way, why is the format so bizarre?

Please learn how to use the there, their and they're. It would help the credibility factor of this article. Thanks!


 * By his Userboxes, the original author is a teen-ager. He did a pretty good job considering. Cut him some slack and just clean it up for him when you see a mistake. Oh, yeah, when you post on these discussions, use the four tildes and sign it. Luxomni 01:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Survivor
Quite obviously, I am a throat cancer survivor. I want to take this opportunity to point out to all who read this that while throat cancer is relatively fast moving and lethal, it is particularly curable if treated in time. If you note swollen lymph nodes on your neck, extended sore throat, or unexplained bleeding, see your ENT immediately. Throat cancer free for 1¼ years. Luxomni 01:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

217.121.147.246
Go ahead and make yourself an account on Wikipedia. You contribute quite a few edits. I would send you this directly, but since you don't have an account we can't leave you messages. When you enter what did you really expect for it to do? What did you mean for it to do?

Effects on body systems
Having defended the original author, let me now say that I hate that whole section. Not only is it padded, and overwritten, it is wrong.
 * Do we really need an complete explanation of what the digestive system does down to peristalsis here? No one has ever said what level Wikipedia is written for - kids or professionals - but I feel this is a little too explanatory. And lord knows I have a bad habit of over-explaining things.
 * Additionally, the bit about radiation making people throw up. Here a little more explanation would be in order. Radiation doesn't make people throw up. The skin sloughing off the inside of their throat gagging or choking them makes people throw up. The nausea from the chemo and amifostine does. But the radiation itself?
 * On that order, the effects of the cancer and the effects of the treatment ought to be at least separate paragraphs.
 * His explanation of metastasis makes reads like the definition of metastasis is  spread into bones. (I will probably change this one immediately. It bothers me that much.)

I don't know if I am necessarily the one to re-edit this section. I might over-edit it. Then again that might not be a bad thing. Luxomni 12:47, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite
i just rewrote a bunch of the article, to wikify it and make it more of an encyclopedia article and less of a high school paper. i also cut a lot out that made it harder to read and was unnecessary--the various effects that the breakdown of the skeletal system has on the body, for instance, just seems rather superfluous in an article about throat cancer. i also linked to a lot of stuff that wasn't linked to before. . . cheers -- he ah  00:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this is a true statement at all "The presence of acid reflux disease (GERD - gastroesphogeal reflux disease) or larynx reflux disease can also be a major factor. In the case of acid reflux disease, stomach acids flow up into the esophagus and damage its lining, making it more prone to throat cancer." Gerd increases the chance of esophagus cancer, not throat cancer.

Proposed merge into Head and neck cancer
I proposed that we merge most of the material from this page into the article head and neck cancer, which is medically more specific and better defined. This page should be left as a disambiguation page directing readers to head and neck cancer or esophageal cancer. For discussion of this merge, please comment at Talk:Head and neck cancer. Thanks. -RustavoTalk/Contribs 18:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * After recieving favorable comments on talk:head and neck cancer, I went ahead and carried out the merge. -RustavoTalk/Contribs 03:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)