Cancer

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Cancer prevention stamp, 1981 by Deutsche Bundespost.

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At 8.04pm on 14 November 2001, Sodium (a doctor from London) wrote:

at 8.54am on 1 December 2001, Magnus Manske began to build the web…

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• Anonymous users edited 1,534 times (32%)

• 50% of the edits were made by the top 10% of the editors

• 15% of the edits were made by just 3 editors – all medical doctors

History of the Cancer article

• December 2010 peer review:

Classification, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Signs and Symptoms, and Management and History sections lack citations.

In the Classification section, what is meant by "the type of cell that resembles the tumor"?

Germ cell tumor paragraph, "In adults most often found" is awkward English.

In the Causes section, the meaning of the percentage ranges is unclear. Is this variation in cause vs. type?

"Cancer related to ones occupation..." How is this connected to chemicals?

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• This month, the article was viewed over 276,000 times

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Oncology

Cancer awareness

Cancer fundraisers

OncologistsCancer

research

Researchers JournalsNursing journals

Cancer staging

Carcinogens

IARC Groups

Group 1

Alcohol Arsenic Beryllium Cadmium

Group 2A

Nitrogen mustards

Group 2B Group 3 Group 4

OncogenesCancer clusters

Organizations

Hospitals Awareness

Cancer patients

Deaths

By countryBy cancer

type

Surgical oncology Types of

Cancer

Breast cancer

Deaths Survivors

Benign neoplasm

Soft tissue

Endocrine Head and neck

Deaths Survivors

Hereditary cancers

Kidney cancers

DeathsSurvivors

Lung cancers

Deaths Survivors

Pediatric cancers

Rare cancers

Sarcoma

Cancer treatments

Anti-metabolites

Anti-neoplastic

drugs

Radiation oncology

Units of radiation

dose

Tyrosine kinase

inhibitors

Tumor markers

Tumor suppressors

Stubs

• ~ 6858 articles within the oncology tree

• [ Category:Oncology stubs ]

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Gardner P P et al. Nucl. Acids Res. 2011;39:D141-D145

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