User talk:HenryScow

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Welcome to Wikipedia, HenryScow! I have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. Thank you for your contributions. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Questions, or feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or type helpme at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. Again, welcome! —Tom Morris (talk) 10:05, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hello
Hello Henry. Sorry I was unable to be at the training session, however I should be online most of today and will be happy to help if I can. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if I can be of assistance. Rockpock e  t  10:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Belm
'Enry. You belm.

Mpwnw1 (talk) 10:55, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Where's the multimedia section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OakIslander (talk • contribs) 11:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Your first barnstar
Hello Henry. Barnstars are awards given within Wikipedia for outstanding contributions. You have earned...

I too am glad to note that your article appears balanced. All too many times here we see users with professional or personal involvement in a subject writing content which struggles to stay neutral, but so far I'm glad to see that some detailed and professional content is being added and I hope everyone remains open to discussion no matter what our backgrounds. Good stuff. S.G.(GH) ping! 11:26, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Welcome/Thank you
I just read the BBC article about the work you are doing, and I wanted to extend a warm welcome and thank you for the work you have started. It's important work that you are doing here but sometimes thankless, so I hope that if/when your interactions with other editors becomes frustrating, you don't give up. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 15:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks everyone! HenryScow (talk) 18:03, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for The Hallmarks of Cancer
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Adding links
Rather than just adding links it would be better if you worked to improve the content on Wikipedia. Please see WP:MEDRS for referencing requirements. Also it is best not to use sources you are associated with (ie published). Thanks. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:04, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

The Hallmarks of Cancer
Hi, Henry, I just expanded The Hallmarks of Cancer. I was surprised to find a WP entry, but those links are useful.

The Cell article is well worth reading. It gives a context to all those individual review articles on the genomics of cancer I've been reading. It was a lot simpler 11 years ago. --Nbauman (talk) 19:20, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Microtubules and Consciousness
Hi Henry. I would fully support the move of the Microtubules and Consciousness section to a new Wikipedia entry. I strongly feel that it does not belong on the Microtubule Wikipedia page. Are you willing to make that move? If not I can, but I am a new entry into the debate (although I have worked on microtubule associated proteins for 7 years). Orangutans (talk)

NICE statement at fulvestrant
Hi, noticed too late that you may have something to contribute here, do you have an opinion on Talk:Fulvestrant ? -- Richiez (talk) 19:58, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * will have a look now HenryScow (talk) 20:19, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * thanks. Just as a reminder for someone with a very fuzzy memory - how did NICE score in the Herceptin blunder? Richiez (talk) 23:11, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * IIRC they said no, for justifiable reasons (lack of data vs cost), then the Mail came along and whipped everyone up and the govt caved. Subsequent clinical data vindicated a 'yes' decision, but not a good way to do it. That's my late-night fuzzy memory take on it though! HenryScow (talk) 23:32, 1 March 2012 (UTC)


 * good refresh of my memory. Actually I remembered the controversy reasonably well but was not sure if NICE did exist or was involved at that time. In Old Europe we had the tendency to munch everything across the channel togehter as NHS (aka register for Tonsillectomy before your baby is born) so even a brilliant body such as the NICE has way to go stick out of this. The Herceptin controversy may be one of the better remembered issues, maybe it could be elaborated in the NICE article? It was gruesome to read all the newspaper articles about this affair. -- Richiez (talk) 22:21, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Palliative radiotherapy reference needed at "Lung cancer"
Hi, Henry. I am currently re-editing "Lung cancer". There is a sentence that states "Unlike other treatments, it is possible to deliver palliative radiotherapy without confirming the histological diagnosis of lung cancer." The sentence (not added by me) currently does not have a reference. I believe that the statement is true, but I am struggling to find a reliable source for this. Can you help? Thanks. Axl ¤  [Talk]  19:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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