Talk:Paraneoplastic syndrome

PMID

PMID 15146039 is quite a comprehensive review of the neurological paraneoplastic syndromes. JFW | T@lk 12:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Dubious

I have marked as dubious several of the conditions (mostly autoimmune diseases) that were included in the neurological paraneoplastic syndromes subsection, but are not listed in the named reference. In the case of Myasthenia gravis, it may be a confusion with LEMS. At some level, PND (paraneoplastic neurological disorder) means "an autoimmune disease that attacks your nervous system and which you mightn't have if you never had cancer," so it's possible that these are proper PNDs and they just need a source.

MG

Myasthenia, muscle weakness, is a paraneoplastic syndrome. As for autoimmune myasthenia gravis - that's a different story. There is a strong association between MG and thymomas (both benign and malignant) but even if a thymoma causes MG, that's a new disease by itself and not really a sign of PNPS. Rxminimalism (talk) 11:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Rare one

The situation in this NYTimes story might be interesting to include in this article, if we could find the original paper(s) on ovarian teratoma encephalitis. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:38, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

PMID 17262855? PMID 18032452? --Arcadian (talk) 00:41, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm pretty sure that the first one is both the one mentioned in the article and also the better of the two (twelve cases being better than one). WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:07, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Tables

I'm not sure about the recent conversion to tables. Tables are harder for the average person to edit, and they make the article less readable. Is there any reason that we couldn't keep the plain old list, or even turn it into proper paragraphs? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:28, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Tables

I wanted to add Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy, a syndrome associated with lung cancer but gave up after struggling with the more complicated editing rules. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielk212 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Needs clarification

The beginning paragraph needs clarification. I am a student, and am not in a position to offer a suggestion as to the wording. However, it says in the first paragraph that this syndrome is due to humoral factors (antibodies) and in the same sentence says that it is actually due to hypersecretion of hormones or cytokines. Those are not the same, but are presented as such with the current text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creightonian (talk • contribs) 23:34, 12 December 2010 (UTC)