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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for thymic carcinoma.<ref name=age>National Cancer Institute. General Information About Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment. http://www.cancer.gov/types/thymoma/hp/thymoma-treatment-pdq. Accessed on 22nd December, 2015.</ref> | |||
==Surgery== | ==Surgery== | ||
Treatment options for thymic carcinoma include the following:<ref name=age>National Cancer Institute. General Information About Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment. http://www.cancer.gov/types/thymoma/hp/thymoma-treatment-pdq. Accessed on 22nd December, 2015.</ref> | |||
*Surgery | |||
*Radiation | |||
*Cisplatin-based chemotherapy | |||
*For patients with clinically resectable disease, surgical resection is often the initial therapeutic intervention. | |||
*For clinically borderline or frankly unresectable lesions, neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapy or thoracic radiation therapy, or both, is given. | |||
*Patients presenting with locally advanced disease should be carefully evaluated and undergo multimodality therapy. | |||
*Patients with poor performance status and high associated operative risks are generally not considered for these types of aggressive treatments. | |||
*Patients with metastatic disease may respond to combination chemotherapy. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist|2}} | {{Reflist|2}} | ||
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[[Category:Up-To-Date]] | |||
[[Category:Oncology]] | [[Category:Oncology]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Medicine]] | ||
[[Category:Hematology]] | |||
[[Category:Immunology]] | |||
[[Category:Surgery]] |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Marjan Khan M.B.B.S.[2]
Overview
Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for thymic carcinoma.[1]
Surgery
Treatment options for thymic carcinoma include the following:[1]
- Surgery
- Radiation
- Cisplatin-based chemotherapy
- For patients with clinically resectable disease, surgical resection is often the initial therapeutic intervention.
- For clinically borderline or frankly unresectable lesions, neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapy or thoracic radiation therapy, or both, is given.
- Patients presenting with locally advanced disease should be carefully evaluated and undergo multimodality therapy.
- Patients with poor performance status and high associated operative risks are generally not considered for these types of aggressive treatments.
- Patients with metastatic disease may respond to combination chemotherapy.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Cancer Institute. General Information About Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment. http://www.cancer.gov/types/thymoma/hp/thymoma-treatment-pdq. Accessed on 22nd December, 2015.