Talk:brain cancer

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brain cancer

¶ Does anybody think this is sum‐of‐parts? --Pilcrow 02:02, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't. WP says it can also occur in the spinal canal. Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 02:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

There's also lung cancer and skin cancer. -- Liliana • 12:59, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

And prostate cancer. I'd say delete any bodypart + cancer where it refers to cancer of the said bodypart. For English speakers, this is SoP as the meaning is easily derived from the sum of the parts, so it failed WT:CFI#Idiomaticity. Ergo delete this. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:43, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't necessarily refer to cancer of the said bodypart in this case. A cancer in the w:Central canal of spinal cord is a brain cancer. Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 22:51, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep if this is true. --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:17, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

I think this should be removed to RfV, if (as it seems) we cannot reach sufficient consensus of deleting it. The only source I could find which claimed that also cancer in the central canal of spinal cord would be classified as brain cancer is Wikipedia, which does not mention its source. In fact, our entry, as it currently stands, says nothing else than that brain cancer is a cancer of the brain. Instead, I could find several references to "spinal cancer" in the web. I wonder what the heck is that if the cancer in the central canal is a brain cancer? --Hekaheka 11:50, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

keep and hope sara palin reads this and get's it.Lucifer 11:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Keep. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 07:06, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

•  Keep, unique, clinical term. -- Cirt (talk) 01:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Kept. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 05:30, 9 May 2012 (UTC)