Talk:Appendix cancer

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Carcinoid: cancer or not?

Tubular carcinoids of the appendix do not show any metastatic potential. They are not a 'cancer'. Also, most classic/insular carcinoids behave indolently. Carcinoid is most common appendiceal tumour (50-77% of all appendiceal tumours). Any takers for a rewrite? Hovea 13:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Hovea, as described in cancer, carcinomas are defined as an epithelial neoplasm that i) grows without limits, and ii) invades the stroma. Carcinoids do both, even tubular carcinoids of the appendix. Metastasis is a common properties of cancer, but is not needed to define the disease.

Neuroendocrine carcinomas are classified in the Pathologist's mind as such:

• Low grade = carcinoid (GI tract, lung)
• Intermediate grade = large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (lung)
• High grade = small cell carcinoma (lung) and Merkel cell carcinoma (skin)

I hope this helps. Emmanuelm (talk) 17:26, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Morphology Code from ICD-O

I have removed the ICD-O morphology code for the following reasons:

1. There are several possible morphological types of cancer that may be in the appendix. Providing only one of them is erroneous.
2. Morphology codes belong on articles such as adenocarcinoma rather than on articles on sites - unless the site only ever has the one morphological type. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 01:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

If it hasnt spread is it easy to remove?

When I heard about cancer in the appendix I instantly remembered the references that an appendix does nothing for us and that it exists because of evolutionary factors (debatable among some). So anyway wouldn't that mean that if you have cancer in the appendix and it HAS NOT spread (benign state) that it would be easy to deal with an you would just remove the appendix or is this not done? Would this be the only cancer and only cancer treatment associated with a cancer that the treatment would involve just removing the part? I think this is an interesting question but it seems there is very little contribution to this article as compared to much more common and popular cancer types. I though maybe some surgeons help out with Wikipedia articles (and maybe source there own research and information) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.31.254 (talk) 17:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

References added

I added a number of items to the further reading section which could be used as references to improve this article. - - MrBill3 (talk) 14:54, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Stuart Scott has purposely not released the type of cancer he had

Please don't add his death here as there is no reliable source available to confirm it. There is a lot of speculation because of its discovery during an appendectomy. --DHeyward (talk) 20:35, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Your claims are incorrect. First, did Stuart Scott himself admit he had appendix cancer? Yes. Men's Health published an article written by Stuart Scott in which he wrote: "When they told me I had cancer—a very rare form called appendiceal cancer—I was shocked." http://www.menshealth.com/health/stuart-scott-cancer?fullpage=true

Second, have any reliable sources reported he died of appendix cancer, confirming the news? Yes.

New York Times: "He learned of his cancer in 2007 while on assignment in Pittsburgh for 'Monday Night Football,' having had an emergency appendectomy. Doctors discovered appendiceal cancer." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/sports/stuart-scott-espn-sportscaster-is-dead-at-49.html?_r=0

CBS News: "On Sunday, Scott lost a long battle with appendiceal cancer." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/espn-anchor-stuart-scotts-rare-cancer/

I have updated the article with these sources to report the accurate news he died of appendix cancer.

--38.100.17.149 (talk) 23:09, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

And they are not reliable on this as they say "Although Scott never disclosed his exact diagnosis,". How are they knowing what he died from? He hasn't had an appendix in 7 years. Also, that article says appendiceal cancer is a form of colon cancer. We have a quote from Scott that he was never diagnosed with colon cancer. It's speculation by CBS without confirmation. In addition, Scott purposely did not want his type of cancer revealed. Respecting that is also a factor in dignity. --DHeyward (talk) 01:21, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Proper coding for the following

SEER ("S"urveillance, "E"pidimology and "E"nd "R"esults). Please direct me to the place where this is explained so that I can then correct this attempt to highlite the name and its explanation.Srednuas Lenoroc (talk) 02:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Srednuas Lenoroc: Here is the Wikipedia article. A google search reveals other articles on the other websites. I dream of horses (T) @ 02:34, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I think you were looking for Help:Link or maybe the cheatsheet. I have linked the article with this edit; there's no need to explain the acronym here when we can point interested readers to a dedicated article instead. Huon (talk) 02:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Appendix neoplasms by incidence and prognosis chart makes no sense.

The chart titled "Appendix neoplasms by incidence and prognosis" seems to make no sense! The percentages given add to well over 100%, and there are multiple red areas and many areas with no numerical value given?

Help?! Mwanner | Talk 22:23, 25 December 2022 (UTC)