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What is thymus cancer?
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Uncommon: Of the types of cancer, is uncommon, but if there is mass in anterior mediastinum, 47% are thymomas.
Answered 11/30/2016
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Thymus mass/cancer: Thymus is a gland we have in our low neck and chest during our childhood. It provides lymphocytes as is involved in our inmune system. This gland usually disappear or leave a small remnant. In some individuals in may grow abnormally causing mass effect in the middle of the chest (mediastinum) which maybe associated to myasthenia .http://www.cancer.org/cancer/thymuscancer/detailedguide/index.
Answered 7/5/2012
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