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A 21-year-old member asked:
How is thymus cancer diagnosed?
2 doctor answers • 5 doctors weighed in
Dr. Pavel Conovalciucanswered
Family Medicine 24 years experience
Imaging and biopsy: Imaging is usually the first step in diagnosing thymus pathology. Ct scan would probably be required to differentiate between potentially malignant and benign lesions. Finally, biopsy will need to be performed to determine the cancer type and stage.
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Dr. Marsha Davisanswered
Internal Medicine 29 years experience
Biopsy: From the wording i infer that thymus is already targeted by imaging. Biopsy should be the next step.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
What is thymus cancer from?
4 doctor answers • 11 doctors weighed in
Dr. Scott Welkeranswered
General Surgery 28 years experience
Immune system: The thymus is an immune organ, that lives in the chest. It is most active in childhood. No one knows what causes the cancer, but it omes in many different types, which often resemble cancers from other areas of the body, such as squamous cell cancer, lymphoma, etc. One type of the thymic cancer, which is a malignant thymoma, is related to the muscle disease myasthenia gravis.
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Last updated Mar 12, 2020
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