Talk:Kaposi's sarcoma

Latest comment: 6 years ago by 131.215.115.31 in topic Jewish Men

Not a "true sarcoma"?

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I thought that it was a true sarcoma, which is defined as any tumor arising from mesodermal tissue - which includes blood vesicles. Can anyone clear this up? 24.248.9.162 16:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)SmallCBReply

No it's not, and strictly it's not really neoplastic either. I'll bung in, and expand all this later in the article.FelixFelix talk 17:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Jewish Men

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I have reverted back to my version containing the information that Kaposi's Sarcoma was originally prevalent in elderly Jewish men. This can be referenced to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000661.htm Mouse Nightshirt 13:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

That reference is highly dubious, in spite of being on a .gov website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Move to Kaposi Sarcoma?

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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15321

At the bottom? no one 12:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Agree with moving to Kaposi sarcoma. soupvector (talk) 21:28, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
I agree too as this name is in the ICD-10. Brenton (contribs · email · talk · uploads) 12:43, 5 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

KSHV or HHV-8

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I believe that HHV-8 is officially the preferred term and it should be remembered that it also causes Castleman's and Primary Effusion Lymphoma. What do we think about using HHV-8 instead of KSHV?FelixFelix talk 17:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Should be Castleman's disease.(people may think Castleman's lymphoma if you do not put the word in there)

History and Theories

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Under Virus Caused "This, the eighth human herpesvirus (HHV-8)—now known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV)—has since been found in all KS lesions tested, and is considered the cause of the disease"

According to my med school notes, "HHV-8 is necessary, but not sufficient to cause Kaposi's sarcoma" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.179.218 (talk) 00:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

images

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KS is normally associated with purple lesions on the skin, not in the mouth. I propose swapping the images to put the purple skin lesions at the top of the page. 128.122.89.11 (talk) 03:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma

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Viral cause isolated: not homosexual-specific

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In the Viral Cause section, you can find the following sentence "The virus is sexually transmitted among men having sex with men ...". After reading reference 19 [1], I do not agree with that statement. Basically, what I can extract from the research is that HHV-8 is sexually transmitted. In the Discussion section, they specifically mention that "HHV-8 seroprevalence was more common among homosexual or bisexual men", but nowhere do they say it is exclusive to homosexual or bisexual men. I find that it might be misleading to exclude heterosexual intercourse from the means of transmission of the virus. I made the appropriate edit to the page (on November 6th 2010). Yop83 (talk) 05:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Proposed merge

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Hello to all! I am proposing a merge from the following articles into this article:

  • African cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma
  • African lymphadenopathic Kaposi sarcoma
  • AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma
  • Immunosuppression-associated Kaposi sarcoma
  • Classic Kaposi sarcoma

This is for the following reasons:

  • The main article already has this information in its entirety.
  • AIDS-associated KS, Immunosuppression-associated appear to be more relevant in the causes section of KS rather than separate articles.
  • These articles are very short in length (1-2 sentences) and have not been edited significantly in 3-4 years.
  • This knowledge shouldn't be obscured from readers of this article by virtue of being isolated in an obscure article of 1-2 lines.
  • These topics may receive more attention by being mentioned in the main article.
  • The articles, if needs be, could be re-expanded at a later date.

Kind Regards, LT90001 (talk) 23:38, 10 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

With no objections, I have completed this merge. LT90001 (talk) 23:49, 31 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Endemic versus Africa

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Ref says "The latter includes classic KS in elderly men, African (endemic) KS in younger African men, women, and children, iatrogenic KS (mainly in transplant patients, but also can be due to chemotherapy and other immune suppressive therapy), and epidemic HIV/AIDS-associated KS"

User:Soupvector they appear to be synonyms per the ref you provided. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:44, 9 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Africa is just one (prominent) example of an endemic region; thus, if you want to delete one of them, delete "African". See also PMID 25375883 in which they talk about other endemic regions (Mediterranean region and China). PMID 24521144 is a systematic review that emphasizes the contrast between epidemic and endemic KS, and makes it clear that the latter is not exclusively African. — soupvector (talk) 03:05, 9 March 2018 (UTC)Reply