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Contents 1 Thanks 2 leukemia 3 Thrombosis 4 Oh God! 5 ALL mutation? 6 ALL abbreviation 7 See also 8 External links 9 Fluorescent lights contribute to ALL?

Thanks

Thanks to User:EC, this page took off. I have taken some time to copyedit it, as there was a lot of redundancy (e.g. the side-effects of chemotherapy are general enough to go under chemotherapy and not here). Nevertheless, this is a very good article. JFW | T@lk 11:48, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

leukemia

leukemia is very scary to have

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"For patients, like in other cancers, the success rate is either 100% or zero, rendering overall statistical rates meaningless."

To me this sounds like an inspirational speech and doesn't really have a place in an encyclopedia article. There are overall statistical rates, and they are not meaningless.

Thrombosis

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06677.x - ALL patients are relatively prone to thrombosis. This study looks into why and whether preventative treatment is needed. JFW | T@lk 23:13, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh God!

Will somebody PLEASE clean up the little summary thing before the table of contents? Dancanm 19:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

ALL mutation?

My cousin had ALL. In early October she went to the doctor and they found some cells they had never seen before. Doctors said ALL does not mutate, but for an unknown reason - hers had. Does ALL mutate into other forms of leukemia? Look at the October 9th and Oct. 15th entry of the link provided. Documentation of cell mutation San Antonio Guy_talk 01:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

ALL abbreviation

I'm not convinced how useful this abbreviation is, as it could be slightly confused as 'All' with certain readers. E.g. "Initial symptoms are not specific to ALL". CycloneNimrod (talk) 17:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC

See also

I have edited this with Maarten van der Weijden. He was diagnosed with ALL in 2001. He won a gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Because I derive hope from this I wanted to share this with the community! If anyone takes offense or grief, please remove the reference!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Soomers (talk • contribs) 19:48, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

External links

I marked the ACOR link as being dead because I can't get it to open. "Server not responding." Can someone else try again, maybe tomorrow?

Additionally, Wikipedia's external links policy and the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles do not permit the inclusion of external links to non-encyclopedic material, particularly including internet chat boards and e-mail discussion groups. Because I realize that most normal editors haven't spent much time with these policies, please let me provide specific information from the guidelines:

• This page, which applies to all articles in the entire encyclopedia, says that links "to social networking sites (such as MySpace or Fan sites), discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists" are to be avoided.

• This page deprecates ""helpful" external links, such as forums, self-help groups and local charities."

• This medical-specific page reinforces the pan-Wiki rules, with a note that "All links must meet Wikipedia's external links guidelines, which in particular exclude discussion forums."

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while it may occasionally be useful to patients or their families, it is not an advertising opportunity for support groups. So if this ACOR link takes us to a page that has no content, it needs to be deleted entirely, even if it starts working again. If it leads to a page with information about ALL, then that's great.

Any editor, BTW, is welcome to read all of the rules and perform an "audit" in the remaining links. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Fluorescent lights contribute to ALL?

Not suitable for the article, but this is a somewhat curious study. Picked it up from a correspondence while browsing NEJM. II | (t - c) 20:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Usually, the "fluorescent lights cause cancer" story is attributed to people staying inside (lack of sunshine) or staying up late at night (disrupted light/dark cycles). There's no good data on the subject, just weak speculation. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

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