What is the treatment for thymus cancer?

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Answer 1

Resectable or not: Surgery for resectable thymic cancers. Surgery may occur before or after radiation +/- chemotherapy in some late stage cancers.

Answer 2

Excission: Excission when possible is both diagnostic and therapeutic.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Thymus gland: Thymoma is a slow-growing type of cancer that begins in the thymus. Removal of thymus gland is both diagnostic and potentially therapeutic. This can now be done without "splitting the breast bone". The following links may provide more information: http://goo.Gl/mqtn1 and this one: http://goo.Gl/oetwz and this one: http://goo.Gl/yjnh5.

Answer 5

Uncommon: Of the types of cancer, is uncommon, but if there is mass in anterior mediastinum, 47% are thymomas.

Answer 6

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.

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