User talk:Retroid

List of current papillomavirus-related main articles

Papillomavirus - updated, stub status removed.
Human papillomavirus - Focus on HPV diseases. Hard technical stuff to Papillomavirus.
HPV vaccine - Updated
Gardasil - Updated
Microbicide - added HPV & carrageenan
Nonoxynol-9 - added HPV potentiation
Bovine papillomavirus - new Aug 06
wart - Turn into a disambiguation page for different wart types. Move relevant text to common wart.

List of wart articles: Wart, Common wart, Plantar wart, Genital wart(redirect venereal wart), anal wart, Flat wart, Epidermodysplasia verrucaformis, subungual wart(redirect periungual, fingernail wart)

List of other warts (mention in "Wart" and/or appropriate redirect) - mosaic wart, filiform wart, pigmented wart, butcher's wart, palm wart, palmar wart, hand wart, finger wart, skin wart, cutaneous wart.

common wart - create. Use Plantar wart text as foundation for "treatment" section.
plantar wart - double check for any needed update
genital wart - generally good
cervical cancer - generally good. Some unnecessary jargon and a bit disorganized. Needs tersening. Some clinical aspects are outside my area of expertise.
laryngeal papillomatosis - should redirect to the more the general term respiratory papillomatosis
Carcinoma of Penis - don't forget the capital P! Rename penile cancer, make redirects for other variations.
bowen's disease - Make sure common wart and skin cancer both link here
colposcopy
vulvectomy
cervical dysplasia - merge with cervical cancer?
cancer vaccine
papilloma - Add link to "common wart"
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia - merge with cervical cancer?
cervical conization - redundant with cervical cancer?
skin lesion - needs link to "wart"
sexually transmitted disease - should mention that HPV is the most common STD
skin cancer - maybe add quick mention of suspected HPV involvement?
pap smear - Added link to HPV. Mentioned DNA testing - still needs de-jargonizing.
Georgios Papanikolaou - add link to HPV
Gynaecology - mention HPV vaccine
Obstetrics and gynecology - mention HPV vaccine
Loop electrical excision procedure - check for redundancy with cervical cancer
Nail disease - mention HPV

needed entries or redirects

HPV test - made stub (redirects: HPV DNA test, hybrid capture, digene).
respiratory papillomatosis, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, RRP, juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, JORRP - all redirect to respiratory papillomatosis
Squamous intraepithelial lesion, SIL, LSIL, HSIL, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, CIN - all redirect to cervical cancer.
epidermodysplasia verruciformis - create stub
Redirect misspellings planter wart and planter's wart to plantar wart.
VIN redirect to vaginal cancer
ASIL redirect to anal cancer
Article skin cancer should mention possible involvement of HPVs in some non-melanoma skin cancers
Stub for head and neck cancer should mention HPV (generally type 16) being involved in a fraction of these cancers (most notably oropharyngeal)
Create: flat wart, subungual wart (redirect periungual wart and fingernail wart to subungual), mosaic wart, filiform wart, pigmented wart, butcher's wart
redirect to palmar wart, hand wart, finger wart, skin wart to "common wart"
anal wart, venereal wart - redirect to genital wart
colon cancer, breast cancer - reference hypothesis of HPV association?
cervical cytology - redirect to pap smear
penis cancer, penile carcinoma, carcinoma of the penis, cancer of the penis, etc redirect to penile cancer
condylomatum acuminata, condylomata acuminata redirect to genital wart
HPV article: external link to NCI's FAQ page

Thanks

Thanks for all your awesome work (both RL and here) on HPV and friends. :) Just wanted to let you know that I restored the genome image to the HPV taxobox, with hopefully a clearer caption, and added another category heading to the article just to tighten and brighten the layout. Hope you don't mind. jengod 21:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

response posted on Jengod's talk pageRetroid 16:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warts

Thanks for all of the info you have provided. Retroid, I see that you are a viroligist near DC, perhaps you could help me. I have literally thousands of warts, I was hoping you could e-mail me at jimdecker at optonline.net, and I could explain my situation. Thanks. User:jdecker 14:14, 9 Sept 2006 (EDT)

I'm hesitant to send email. I'm a lab geek (not a medical doctor) so I'm not qualified to offer anyone any medical advice. Sounds dreadful about the warts. The fact that I occasionally get isolated warts on my hands and feet is one factor in my feeling that medical research should target all HPVs everywhere for eradication as soon as possible. Maybe try contacting one of the HPV research bigwigs in the DC area - Dick Schlegel (Georgetown) and Doug Lowy (National Cancer Institute) spring to mind. I think they're both certified M.D.s, who might at least point you in the right direction for the sort of specialist it sounds like you might need. Retroid 19:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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HPV Vaccine

Hi Retroid. I'd be grateful for your comments or answer to this question. Thanks! NCdave 06:38, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I never got back to you, NCdave. After doing some editing work on papillomaviruses a while back, I decided I was becoming kind of OCD and went cold-turkey on all Wikipedia activity. It's hard being a geek. I'm glad my buddy Chackerman, who knows at least as much about papillomaviruses as I do, appears to have remained active. Retroid (talk) 21:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Contact me?

Hi Retroid,

Wondering if there is any chance you'd email me. I'm working on some research concerning cervical dysplasia and hpv, and have a few questions on the hpv side. Not knowing much about the subject aside from my limited research, my questions will probably seem very basic to you, but for some reason i haven't been able to find a sufficiently satisfying answer to some of the questions i have from the info i've found so far. any help would be appreciated.

thank you!

LearningNeverEnds (talk) 19:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force

I wanted to know if you (or any friends of yours) are interested in dermatology, and would be willing to help me with the WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force? Kilbad (talk) 03:00, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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