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Mycosis fungoides

Proposed Changes

Original:

“Mycosis fungoides can be treated in a variety of ways. Common treatments include simple sunlight, ultraviolet light (mainly NB-UVB 312 nm), topical steroids, topical and systemic chemotherapies, local superficial radiotherapy, the histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat, total skin electron radiation, photopheresis and systemic therapies (e.g. interferons, retinoids, rexinoids) or biological therapies. Treatments are often used in combination.”

Revised Version:

The following should be added under the "Treatment" subheading: Treatments are often used in combination and depend on the staging of mycosis fungoides. Treatment of stage I and stage II often includes radiation therapy, immunotherapy, topical chemotherapy, systemic chemotherapy or targeted therapy. Stage III and stage IV mycosis fungoides offer the addition of extracorporeal photochemotherapy. Lastly recurrent mycosis fungoides can also be treated with high-dose chemotherapy with a stem cell transplant as well as all treatment options listed above.

Rationale & Controversy

After discussion with our tutor as well as group members, a need for distinguishing between treatments for different stages of mycosis fungoides was identified. There was no controversy surrounding or disagreements that the treatment section of the article could use some revision. The addition of multiple wiki links within the revised section will be necessary as it does become difficult to explain treatment options in layman’s terms due to the complex nature of the topic. This being said, it is important that those who are interacting with the mycosis fungoides wikipedia page understand that the different stages of the disease have different treatment options.

Critique of Sources:

It seems as though many clinical trials have been done regarding the various types of treatment for mycosis fungoides. Each individual clinical trial found during my literature search is extremely specific, but unfortunately not recognized as credible wikipedia sources as they are primary research. This made it difficult to find a source that outlined all the treatment options for all the stages of mycosis fungoides. However, the source cited effectively outlines an overview of the interventions widely accepted as treatment for mycosis fungoides at any stage of the disease including local and systemic interventions. This source is credible as it is a National Cancer Institute page and offers a patient version and practitioner version in order to make their accumulation of evidence as accessible as possible to a large population.

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Practice Editing Here (Nov 15th in-class Wiki session work)

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

Task:


 * 1) Find a peer-reviewed journal article on PubMed. Practice inserting your citation in the above space using the "cite" tool
 * 2) Choose one "B-level" medical article on Wikipedia from the following list: https://wp1.openzim.org/#/project/Medicine/articles?quality=B-Class&importance=High-Class
 * 3) Practice editing live on Wikipedia by finding a typo in the text or improving the clarity/readability of a sentence by adjusting a few words in a sentence.

What to post on the Wikipedia article talk page (part of assignment 3)

 * This will also be covered on Nov 15th 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 2021/Talk Page Template