How do you Diagnose Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma? Your physician will first take your medical history, such as age and any potential symptoms, such as myasthenia gravis. When a mass is detected in the ...

Thymectomy is the preferred standard treatment in younger non-thymoma patients with myasthenia gravis as well as in patients with early stage thymoma. Total thymectomy by median sternotomy has been ...

Thymomas and thymic carcinomas are rare tumors of the thymus – a tiny organ which is responsible for producing white blood cells. These conditions are characterized by cancer cells that grow on the ...

In 2011, at age 25, Youssef Heddaya was diagnosed with thymoma, a typically slow-growing tumor that develops in the thymus, a small organ in the chest that is vital to the immune system. Located near ...

THE relation between myasthenia gravis and thymic tumors remains obscure despite the fact that much careful study and thought has been given this fascinating subject. In the majority of reported cases ...

Paraneoplastic autoimmunity frequently accompanies thymoma. Because thymic tumors can support thymocyte development, aberrant T-cell generation has been suggested as a cause. 1 A 64-year-old woman ...

Julie Crane and her young family are living in fear of a tumour doctors found in Julie's chest in May. Thymoma surgery is the only way to determine whether the mass is cancerous. But even though Julie ...