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Colorectal Cancer: Radiation Therapy
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 * This is a place to practice clicking the "edit" button and practice adding references (via the citation button).

Around 10-15% of all patients with colorectal cancer will develop pulmonary metastases.

Assignment # 3

 * Note: You will be emailing your assignment # 3 directly to your tutor, however, please paste a version here that excludes your personal information. This will allow us to support your efforts on Wikipedia prior to editing "live" in the article.

Wikipedia Assignment 3: 1.	Outline your specific planned changes to your section of the article, labelled “Proposed Changes”. Target 1-2 sentences for your improvements. Use the exact language you plan to post to the Wikipedia community and ensure that it is written in a way that is easily understood by non-medical people. I plan to add a sentence on the use of radiation therapy for metastases found in the lungs that are caused by colorectal cancer.

2.	After each proposed change, briefly explain the rationale for the change and the reference(s) you have used to support your content. Label this section “Rationale for proposed change.” The current article does not have information on the use of radiation therapy for colorectal cancer metastases. Around 10-15% of all patients with colorectal cancer will develop pulmonary metastases and may want to learn if radiation therapy works specifically for metastases outside of the colon, so I think updating this section will be useful for many individuals who visit the Wikipedia page.

3.	Identify any controversy or varied opinions about planned changes in your section and explain how you decided to move forward with the position you have taken. Add this piece to the rationale section. N/A

4.	Please identify any issues or concerns with the source (including any possibility of bias) and how (or whether) this has impacted your plans for the information you are choosing to share. Label this section “Critique of Source.” The source of information for this change comes from a meta-analysis by Cao et al. (2019) that was published in a peer-reviewed journal in December 2019. All screened studies were reviewed independently by two reviewers but when there was a disagreement, the two reviewers would have a discussion and come to a consensus. This is a possible source of bias, as this strategy is less robust compared to employing a third reviewer to settle any conflicting opinions.

Furthermore, the inclusion criteria for studies was not explicitly stated in the main body of the study. Therefore, it is possible that this study was susceptible to bias as it is impossible to validate the robustness of the inclusion/exclusion criteria.

5.	On your Wikipedia article talk page, you are required to share a summary of your proposed article improvements. An explanation such as you have done for the rest of this assignment is not required or appropriate for the talk page. Please use the following template for your group on the talk page of your article. Although your group will only have one entry on the article talk page, each person is expected to log into Wikipedia and share their specific sentence (and reference), proposed deletion (if you have one), and any other proposed improvements in the talk page entry for your group. Please be sure to include your proposed reference with textbook page numbers if you used a textbook and the reference should be inserted using the “cite” tool in Wikipedia.

Hello, we are a group of medical students editing this page as part of our class assignment. We have compiled a list of suggestions to improve this article and would appreciate community feedback before we proceed with these edits. Here is a list of our suggestions:

We propose to insert the following content into the Colorectal cancer#Radiation therapy section: “Radiation therapy has been suggested to be an effective treatment against CRC pulmonary metastases, which are developed by 10-15% of people with CRC ."

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page?

 * This will also be covered on Nov 23rd in class. Your group should use the below template to share an outline of your proposed improvements (including your new wording and citations). Article talk pages are not places to share your assignment answers. The Wikipedia community will be more interested in viewing your exact article improvement suggestions including where you plan to improve the article (which section), what wording you suggest, and the exact citation (Note: all citations must meet WP:MEDRS)
 * You will not be able to paste citations directly from your sandbox to talk pages (unless you are interested in editing/learning Wiki-code in the "source editing" mode). We suggest re-adding your citations on the talk page manually (using the cite button and populating the citation by pasting in the DOI, website, or PMID). You will have to repeat this process yet again when you edit the actual article live.
 * Talk Page Template: CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2020/Talk Page Template