Talk:Mouse mammary tumor virus

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I am not shure that one should assign MMTV to veterinary medicine.

Mice are not treated for it. It is more likely an artificial infection used for elucidating human disease. But may be that ist a part of veterinary medicine too? --Elisabeth Rieping 12:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bone metastasis in animal mammary cancer

Hello Joelmills, on metastasis to the bones during feline breast or mammary cancer:

I learned when you see lameness of unknown origin in a cat, think of metastasis from breast cancer. But may be I am wrong. Are you shure? My best regards --Elisabeth Rieping 19:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

There is a report on bone metastasis in cats http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9507421&query_hl=20&itool=pubmed_docsum

To the contrary, MMTV infected mice do not get bone metastases. That is why they are not ideal as a model for human breast cancer. --Elisabeth Rieping 19:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I removed the statement about canine and feline mammary tumors because metastasis to the bones is rare and not typical, although it can happen. The link you provided said that there were only a few reported cases in cats. So I only disagree with bone metastasis being typical in dogs and cats with mammary tumors. --Joelmills 21:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

Hi, I found another page, Mouse mammary tumour virus with almost the same content, though this page appears to be more useful, at a glance. I think you people should discuss this and merge the two. (WP:MERGE) TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 21:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

merge.Bcameron54 03:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC) merge.Elisabeth Rieping 11:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)--

[edit] Merger done

I have copied a few bits of information from Mouse mammary tumor virus and added a redirect link to that page. This page is essentially the same. Just minor modifications done. TwoOars ^{(T | C)} 19:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)