There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood. A retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as ...

Thymomas are typically slow-growing tumors that affect your thymus gland. If one spreads to nearby organs like the lungs and heart, it can make treatment more challenging, but early detection can ...

BERLIN — The health of a cancer patient’s thymus could be linked to survival outcomes with immunotherapy, regardless of the tumor type and independent of established tumor-based biomarkers, suggests ...

Last year, medical student James Shen contracted COVID-19 while working in the emergency room during a rotation. He developed pneumonia and was hospitalized. As part of his care, he underwent a chest ...

Thymoma originates in the thymus and can cause symptoms like chest pain and breathing difficulties, often linked to autoimmune conditions. Diagnosis involves imaging and biopsy, with treatment ...

The thymus gland - which produces immune T cells before birth and during childhood - is often regarded as nonfunctional in adults, and it's sometimes removed during cardiac surgery for easier access ...

In our case the adenocarcinoma was associated with a large benign thymic cyst with columnar epithelium. It showed no dysplastic change. In our case, the HLA-DRB5-locus in chromosomal region 6p21.32 ...

As an employee of the U.S. Postal Service, Len Barchanowicz led an active life and had few health problems. His neck pain was due to an orange-sized tumor. Last summer Len Barchanowicz, 45, ...

Annemarie Shepherd, MD, medical director of Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Proton Therapy, has a special interest in thymic cancers, a type of thoracic cancer. Thoracic cancers develops in the chest, or ...

The first-ever randomized study of the removal of the thymus gland in treating myasthenia gravis was conducted in 2016. Led by Gil I. Wolfe, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and Rosemary ...

One of the most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose ...