Talk:breast cancer

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breast cancer

"Cancer of the breast." Mglovesfun (talk) 21:03, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I am inclined towards deleting these. The only reason they should remain is they might be idiomatic in other languages. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 21:15, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Keep for translations like James said. —CodeCat 21:50, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

"For translations" is not a valid criterion for inclusion. It's also not a very sensible one IMO, as it lets in a whole heck of a lot of things we don't want.​—msh210℠ (talk) 21:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

It could very easily mean "cancer of the breast (fleshy organ)" or "cancer of the breast (chest)" and, in my (thank God) limited experience, it only means the former. If my experience matches actual usage (or current usage) then keep per WT:CFI#Idiomaticity.​—msh210℠ (talk) 21:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

• Keep for the same reason as above. It is not a chest cancer. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 23:59, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Keep, set term, great for translations, men can get it too and they don't have breasts.Lucifer 18:18, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh bugger, didn't think of that, keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:26, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Men do not have breasts? Do you even know what a breast is? --Pilcrow 20:56, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

No they don't because breast means tits to most people, if you ask a doctor they will tell you men do have atrophied undeveloped mammary glands and that this means like pre-pubescent girls they have "breasts" but this usage is rare, therefore men do not have breasts, as they are generally meant to be the big (hopefully) beautiful squishy things you grab onto while your nailing your lady. — This unsigned comment was added by Luciferwildcat (talk • contribs) at 09:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC).

• Keep. It's a disease name, and as such it's a set phrase. By the way, medically speaking, men do have breast tissue. ---> Tooironic 22:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

  Yes medically speaking, but very few people describe them as such, the usage of breast in the singular similar to chest or pecs has some usage but not in the plural which nearly always means tits.Lucifer 09:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

We have earlier deleted prostate cancer. Logic? --Hekaheka 22:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't think prostate cancer effects anything but the prostate, or else it's prostate and colon cancer, etc. But I may be wrong, oncology is not my specialty.Lucifer 03:25, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, according to WP "Prostate cancer most commonly metastasizes to the bones, lymph nodes, and may invade rectum, bladder and lower ureters after local progression." I don't think there is a cancer that limits itself into one organ. If there is, it should be specifically mentioned as the cancer that does not affect any other organ. I'd say we either include all X cancers or we don't. --Hekaheka 06:44, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Well that can go either way, there seems to be 3 potential groups here. Cancer of only X, Cancer called X but can start anywhere in the neighborhood, or Cancer X which certain will effect it's neighborhood. I think we should then keep them all since it would be interesting to know what the neighborhood is.Lucifer 21:18, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Keep, see also the above RFD. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 06:54, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

• Keep per above. bd2412 T 19:59, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Kept. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 08:38, 19 December 2011 (UTC)