Talk:Cancer

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	Cancer was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result December 22, 2005 Good article nominee Listed February 1, 2006 Peer review Reviewed April 28, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted June 21, 2009 Good article reassessment Delisted December 18, 2010 Peer review Reviewed Current status: Delisted good article

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Cancer. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine. Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

The journal titled "Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" offers a comprehensive analysis of the global burden of cancer. Here is a brief summary of its key contents:

1. Incidence Rates: The study provides data on the number of new cancer cases globally, highlighting significant increases in cancers such as breast, lung, and colorectal cancers.

2. Mortality Rates: It details the number of cancer-related deaths, with lung cancer being the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide.

3. Years of Life Lost (YLL): The study measures the loss of life due to premature cancer deaths, identifying cancers like lung, liver, and stomach cancers as having the highest YLL.

4. Years Lived with Disability (YLD): It evaluates the years lived with disability due to cancer, showing that cancers causing long-term health issues, such as colorectal and breast cancers, contribute significantly to YLD.

5. Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY): The study combines YLL and YLD to provide an overall measure of the disease burden, revealing that lung, liver, and stomach cancers account for the highest DALY globally.[1]https://scholar.unair.ac.id/en/publications/cancer-incidence-mortality-years-of-life-lost-years-lived-with-di FIn4nwatin (talk) 08:34, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FIn4nwatin, this sounds like good information for the article. You can edit the article now. Would you like to have a go at updating it? I suggest trying this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer?veaction=edit so you can have a word-processing-like environment with auto-formatting references. Just click the "Cite" button, and put https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34967848/ into the "Automatic" box. (That link also gives you a link to a free, full-text copy of the whole paper. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:53, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FIn4nwatin indef'ed as part of a sock-farm spamming unair publications. DMacks (talk) 06:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This sentence in the prognosis section "A majority of cancer deaths are due to metastases of the primary tumor" has a citation pointing to a review on cancer heterogeneity in mice - theres no research in the paper about cancer deaths in humans with or without metastasis. Jasonisme (talk) 07:42, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that the section 'Palliative care' has a tag for excessive external links, though I was unable to find even one external link in that section. So I'm going to remove that tag for now. Kami was here! ^{(¿Problemo mi amigo? Call me up on my talk page!)} 𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤, 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕓𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 10:06, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The goal of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026 campaign is to bring all 101 top-importance articles—including this one—up to at least B-class quality. Many of these articles are widely read but overdue for review, so even small improvements can have a big impact.

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To reach B class, articles should have: suitable referencing, reasonable coverage, a clear structure, good prose, helpful illustrations, and be understandable to a broad audience. Contributions of any size are appreciated. Femke (talk) 16:00, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why is a video with a terrible computer voice narrator even on this page? It doesn’t seem to really add any actual value ~2026-52916-0 (talk) 08:47, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]