That pleural effusion, a collection of fluid in the chest, doesn’t normally occur with COVID-19, and more testing revealed that Shen had a large thymoma, a rare type of cancerous tumor starting ...

The thymus gland, which sits behind your sternum, is often considered to be useless once you reach adulthood. However, it may serve more of a purpose than experts originally thought. Researchers ...

Thymic epithelial tumors are a rare group of malignancies originating in the thymus gland, that includes thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

Cancer of the thymus gland is rare. Most cancers that start in the thymus gland are called thymomas. There’s also a much rarer form of thymus gland cancer called thymic carcinoma. The thymus gland is ...

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Olivier Negre, Chief Scientific Officer at Smart Immune, about how immunotherapy ...

Between the lungs and in front of the heart sits a small gland called the thymus that wields incredible power over human health by producing T cells, key components of our immune system. In cancer ...

your thymus gland, and some of your lymph nodes. This surgical procedure can help your doctor look for and locate problems related to lung cancer. Your doctor might suggest a mediastinoscopy to ...

We stained sections of the mass with hematoxylin and eosin and examined them using light microscopy. The mediastinal mass histologically corresponded to a neoplasm composed of lymphoid cells and ...

Dr. Jarrod Dudakov studies how the immune system naturally recovers after damage, such as from common cancer therapies like chemotherapy and radiation. He uses mouse models to study the thymus, the ...