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Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for thymic carcinoma. | 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: | 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 | *Surgery | ||
*Radiation | *Radiation | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [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.