Elisabeth Rieping

Regarding mammary cancer metastasis in dogs and cats

First off, let me be the first to welcome you to Wikipedia. I enjoyed the rewrite you did on mouse mammary tumor virus. I only came across it because it was on my watchlist for some minor edits I had done some time ago. Anyway, I removed the statement about canine and feline mammary tumors because metastasis to the bones is rare and not typical, although it can happen. The link you provided said that there were only a few reported cases in cats. So I only disagree with bone metastasis being typical in dogs and cats with mammary tumors. Thanks for the link, by the way, it was very interesting, and I will now look more closely for evidence of mammary cancer in older limping cats. --Joelmills 21:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• Hi, Joelmills! Nice to hear from you! It is rare to meet someone interested in mouse mammary tumors.

I thought one reason that bone metastases are not reported very often, might be that scintigramms are not done regularely in canine or feline breast cancer.

In mice that ist different. There is not even one model with real bone metastases. To optain bone metastases in mice you have to inject tumor cells into the heart of the animal.

That ist a complete different situation compared with natural breast cancer.

Of cause I do not know all modells of mice breast cancer. But until now I did not find only one with bone metastases and I looked for it. --Elisabeth Rieping 16:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Ironically, last week I saw a dog with a bone tumor, which I referred to an oncologist for treatment. He said it was most likely metastatic mammary carcinoma, which makes it the first case I have ever seen. --Joelmills 02:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Dear Joemills. That ist strange. There are numbers on breast tumors in dogs in Norway which say that more than half of the dogs have breast tumors. Probably that are not all cancers. The author was a veterinäry callde Moe.

I found the reference it in a paper concerning former contact between women suffering from breast cancer and dogs. The authors looked for an infektion. The paper was called: Do dogs harbour risk factors for human breast cancer? And here you find the summary: [1] Although I am not convinced by this hypothesis, I could not find a fault in it.

That's interesting that there may be a connection between owning a dog and developing breast cancer, but I think that they meant that 53 percent of dogs with breast tumors have carcinomas. Either that or they have one huge cancer cluster in Norway. Even in non-spayed dogs here the rate is not 50 percent for breast tumors, and statistically only half of those are carcinomas. --Joelmills 20:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello Joelmills. i know the paper of Moe. It is on breast tumors in dog. Benigne tumors and cancers. I know the paper on having contact with dogs and breast cancer, too. I looked on it very carefully and I could not find a fault.Elisabeth Rieping 18:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)--

Hi again. I was just reading a paper on mammary tumors in dogs (see here [2] for it, it's a PDF file), and they did a study on beagles, the vast majority of which were not spayed. It says that 71 percent of the females had mammary tumors. I just wanted to let you know that I was wrong. -Joelmills 18:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Bovine leukemia virus

Hi, I edited the 'Bovine leukemia virus' article created by you. I wikified it, added a few (citation needed) tags, corrected a few typos and improved on the sentence construction. Please do let me know if I have inadvertantly introduced any mistakes. Thanks. TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 20:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Thank you, Twooars, english ist not my language and that makes ist difficult for me. So thanks and I will look at the article again.Elisabeth Rieping 11:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)--

MMTV

I have added a 'merge' tag to these two articles on MMTV, Mouse mammary tumor virus and Mouse mammary tumour virus. I am just informing you because you have contributed to one of these articles and would know how to merge them without missing out on anything. I have also posted a message on the talk page. Thanks. TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 21:21, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Hello Twooars, that was I goood idea of yours. I was puzzled because I didnot see the difference in spelling, because english ist not my language. Thank you Elisabeth Rieping 11:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)--

References

Regarding your article on BLV, the usual wikipedia practice is to give the link to a reference right next to a claim or statement, using the <ref> </ref> tag. This adds a superscripted number there and the name of the reference is added to the "References" subsection automatically. This is more convenient and looks more professional than adding ** to the end of the statement/claim. This was why I added the tags. No offense intended. :) TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 05:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Twooars I didnot know this tag. But I glad to learn to use ist. thank you very much and I am not at all offended but very glad to learn something useful. I hope successfully! ThanksElisabeth Rieping 23:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)--

Actually I forgot to mention that you have to add <references/> in the References section. Check out this page WP:FN for more information on adding footnotes and references. TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 10:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)