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What are the symptoms when lymphoma affects thymus gland? can chest pain be the only symptom of lymphoma?

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May or may not be sx: Lymphoma will produce a sizable mass which will grow and become obvious before any other symptoms might appear. If the Chest CT Scan is normal, then I doubt there is any lymphoma in the Thymus/chest. Chest pain is a nonspecific symptom which can be caused by many many different reason,some obvious,others not so obvious.

Answered 2/3/2017

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