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Is there any possibility for my cancer to spread beyond the thymus?
6 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Yes: It depends on grade but there is the chance of nodal or systemic spread in higher grade malignant tumors of the thymus.
Answered 2/7/2015
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What cancer do you: Have? Any cancer of any organ (with exceptions of basal cell cancer of skin and most brain cancers) left untreated, will spread to other tissues and organs.
Answered 3/22/2020
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Depends need info: Thymus cancers first they are rare, has variety of histological variability , possibility of spread depends on the type of histology , molecular characteristics of tumor, and what stage the tumor was removed. Is there any myasthenia symptoms . In general they do spread rapidly, with over all 30% to 50 % survival rate.
Answered 9/9/2013
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