Comments on: Paleo-oncology http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/ Notes for a new book by George Johnson Tue, 28 May 2013 00:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Johnson http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-15 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:25:19 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-15 It is a fascinating body of literature. The authors offer corroborating evidence like the nature of the lesion: whether it is osteolytic, eating into the bone, or osteoblastic, adding bone tissue. And they consider the pattern of the spread and discuss alternative diagnoses like osteomyelitis and osteoporosis. In a few cases like that of the Scythian king more sophisticated tests are performed like the one for prostate-specific antigen.

]]> By: Pedro http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-14 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:03:53 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-14 I don’t have access to the peer reviewed paleontology articles, but unless there is objective evidence that a bone lesion is a cancer metastasis, you cannot say that a bone abnormality, even in radiological images, is caused by metastatic disease:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bone+lesions+that+mimic+metastasis&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=Ct+scan+bone+lesions+that+mimic+metastasis&cp=8&qe=Q3Qgc2NhbiBib25lIGxlc2lvbnMgdGhhdCBtaW1pYyBtZXRhc3Rhc2lz&qesig=hvtdIOh_nA3Y1FA3nmDwiw&pkc=AFgZ2tlT8FEHDherIo_KQU7HPCz2u-eggOohgh7lrEFaOCqpGqHv0cpgRTVkXqhlrfkvrTwvAOBtgODimP9BqJou5EopmsiilQ&pf=p&sclient=psy&client=firefox-a&hs=Q7D&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=Ct+scan+bone+lesions+that+mimic+metastasis&pbx=1&fp=241062ed1d424d73

]]> By: George Johnson http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-11 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:41:33 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-11 Much appreciated, and thanks for listening to the blogging heads of Science Saturday.

]]> By: George Johnson http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-10 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:40:32 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-10 Thank you for the welcome. “The Stoichiometric Equivalent” looks great. There is too little good writing about chemistry.

]]> By: bjkeefe http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-5 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:35:49 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-5 Great to see you on the full-fledged, comment-enabled blogosphere, George! I look forward to reading this. (Right now I am listening to you, so I will have to postpone commenting on your debut post.)

]]> By: Julie http://talaya.net/chronicles/paleo-oncology/#comment-2 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:10:39 +0000 http://talaya.net/chronicles/?p=10#comment-2 Glad you took the plunge. Can’t wait to read.

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