Talk: Lung cancer
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Sodium,
While I generally like this well fleshed-out article I must point out some inconsistencies and present my reservations and remarks.
"For lay people or for academics" - this issue has not been tackled
properly by Wikipedia community yet. It seems to be really hard to strike
a balance between these two approaches.
Obviously I am looking at this article from the professional's perspective
and I feel the article is lacking something.
There is another thing, in the last decades medicine has changed considerably.
Evidence-based medicine, large international studies and meta-analyses
pave the way for everyday practice. We no longer take medical standards and
medical knowledge for granted it must be well researched and put under
scrutiny of double-blind randomised studies. A statement is never complete
without references from respected peer-reviewed medical journals.
Considering this health science articles seem incomplete or even
sound like the medical knowledge of the past.
- "present in cigarettes" - better "in cigarette smoke" or better still - "in tobacco smoke"
- "lung cancer" - "lung neoplasm" - "lung tumour" -- these can not always be used interchangably and can be misleading sometimes
- "cells lining the bronchi" - bronchial mucous membrane (consider changing in some places "cells" into "tissue")
- "patient here would start to cough up blood-stained material" -it is unclear because of cancer or abscess
- histology of lung neoplasms -- asbestos is carcinogenic in case of mesothelioma mainly AFAIR
- treatment section needs more material
- all in all this article needs some rewrite and probably should fork into several other articles about specific histological types of neoplasms - they are diferrent in many respects. A good job but let's combine our efforts to make it even better.
