Talk:Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

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Is this page necessary?

I have some problems with this page. UCPPS is an emerging term, almost always applied to men with CP/CPPS (at this stage, which is why the term is already discussed in the Nomenclature section of that page). While UCPPS may emerge as a widely used term for both male and female pelvic pain, we should not anticipate that here. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, we don't front-run developments. Currently, the term "female chronic pelvic pain" is linked to endometriosis, but UCPPS, when it is used in relation to females (almost exclusively by the MAPP network, a small group of medical researchers, raising notability concerns), it relates to IC/PBS. So that's another problem with having this page.

Lastly, I am concerned that you have included a primary study here suggesting that UCPPS may be infectious in origin, even wikilinking a specific bacterium. In fact, you are referring to a low powered study in which 4.3% of controls had this bacterium vs 14.5% (of men) with CP/CPPS (all of whom would have had multiple previous courses of antibacterials, sufficient to significantly alter their microbiota, making the barely significant result of this primary study rather moot). Pointedly missing are studies by the MAPP network discussing brain changes in men with CP/CPPS, and more. So the page seems to have been created for you to make some points you wish to make about UCPPS (and WP is not here for people to make POV forks to make points).

Unless you present good reasons for the existence of this page, I will have to nominate it for deletion. Ratel (talk) 21:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merged to Pelvic pain Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:13, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]