Abstract Between January 1988 and June 1990, seven previously untreated patients with
histologically confirmed and clinically staged IIIa invasive thymoma (IT) were enrolled in a …

Thirty-two patients with stage III or IV invasive thymoma (14 women and 18 men; median
age, 40 years) were treated at the Padua Medical Oncology Department from 1977 to 1988 …

Nonsurgical management of malignant thymoma - Hejna - 1999 - Cancer - Wiley Online
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Background Locally advanced malignant thymomas are usually radically resectable in about
60% of stage III but hardly ever in stage IVA. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by …

Purpose Thymoma is a rare disease. The treatment of patients with invasive thymoma
remains controversial. The prognosis of such patients is poor, even with the use of …

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PURPOSE: To assess the factors that predict local control and survival in patients with
thymoma treated with adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) and suggest strategies for optimizing …

Thymomas are relatively common tumors of the anterior superior mediastinum. They are
usually relatively slowly growing tumors and their prognosis depends on the macroscopic …

Despite conventional therapy, including surgery and radiation, 5‐year survival for invasive
thymoma remains poor. Chemotherapeutic agents, including cis‐diamminedichloroplatinum …

The management of most thymomas is relatively straightforward: surgical resection remains
the primary mode of therapy. However, the literature contains many contradictory points of …