Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cancer phobia


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. &mdash; Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 02:17, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Cancer phobia

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Lack of reliable sources, especially problematic as it is medical content relevant to WP:MEDRS and linking chiefly to third-party advertising sources. I'm new to page patrolling, so if this looks like a Speedy Deletion contender, please let me know as it will be helpful for me when going forward. Thanks. Owlsmcgee (talk) 06:28, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep but re-write. The references given refer to "fear of cancer", but that Cancer Phobia is a fear of cancer is not made clear in the opening of the article. Vorbee (talk) 09:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. MT TrainDiscuss 15:44, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * redirect to another article on phobias. Not written in any keepable way, doesn't merit it's own article. Natureium (talk) 16:19, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * WP:TNT? Reading around, what real sources say about fear of cancer concerns dealing with the not irrational fears and with other irrational ideas, but they don't appear to be talking about a genuine specific phobia. Besides, as is typical of those articles here, three-quarters of what we have now is boilerplate language about specific phobias in general, only there's more of that than usual. In general I'm for deletion of articles on particular specific phobias, but in this case it seems to be that there's a real article to be written on the real issues. Mangoe (talk) 20:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Move to the proper term, carcinophobia. 165.91.13.63 (talk) 02:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 05:41, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect to phobia. The refs are insufficient per WP:MEDRS. Do to the poor quality of the refs regardless of what we do it needs a significant re write. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 05:17, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * comment it may be best as the references are sparse, to delete this article but place at List of phobias as carcinophopia (some terms of that list (Hypnophobia, somniphobia) are listed w/out a linked article)...IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:11, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep and strong move to Fear of cancer, with the goal of a complete re-write. I agree with Vorbee and I have sympathy for Mangoe's suggestion of using the TNT.  The fear of cancer is a notable subject about which a very good article could be written, even if it's not a scientifically proven, conventionally accepted specific phobia and thus has a slightly misleading name at the moment.  (Also, I suspect that much of the boilerplate information is wrong, as hypochondriacal requests for testing feel like they would be less likely, and obsessing about diet, exercise, radiation, and "chemicals" would be more likely, if someone were deeply afraid of cancer.)  An article on the fear of cancer subject would connect well with the article on cancer survivorship, as there are multiple recent reviews (e.g.,, , ) on the sub-topic of fear of cancer recurrence.  There are some other points of interest.  For example,  says that people who follow cancer screening recommendations have a low level of fear (but this says nothing about people who refuse screening out of fear), and  says that false-positive screening results increase anxiety about cancer.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:14, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. rewrite is needed, but I think the term is widely used and is a suitable title.  DGG ( talk ) 22:29, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to phobia. Although this topic is notable, we cannot keep it in its current state. Thus, until it is rewritten properly, it should be redirected to phobia. RileyBugz 会話投稿記録 12:03, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Rewrite and move to carcinophobia or fear of cancer. 92.19.181.249 (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:02, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe it should be moved to Carcinophobia with a rewrite, or deleted, because the current name is not encyclopedic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plaba123 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.