Thymectomy and Cancer—A Follow-Up Study

Three hundred and eighty-two patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis at 4 London hospitals during the years 1942-64 have been followed to the end of 1967. Five of these patients died from extrathymic tumours while 5·5 would have been expected to do so from the national experience. An ad...

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Autores principales: Vessey, Martin P., Doll, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1972
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2008330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5014755
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description Three hundred and eighty-two patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis at 4 London hospitals during the years 1942-64 have been followed to the end of 1967. Five of these patients died from extrathymic tumours while 5·5 would have been expected to do so from the national experience. An additional 5 patients developed non-fatal extrathymic tumours during the period of follow-up. These data provide no evidence that adult thymectomy is followed by an increased risk of neoplastic disease, but more prolonged follow-up will be required before a final conclusion can be drawn.
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spelling pubmed-20083302009-09-10 Thymectomy and Cancer—A Follow-Up Study Vessey, Martin P. Doll, Richard Br J Cancer Articles Three hundred and eighty-two patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis at 4 London hospitals during the years 1942-64 have been followed to the end of 1967. Five of these patients died from extrathymic tumours while 5·5 would have been expected to do so from the national experience. An additional 5 patients developed non-fatal extrathymic tumours during the period of follow-up. These data provide no evidence that adult thymectomy is followed by an increased risk of neoplastic disease, but more prolonged follow-up will be required before a final conclusion can be drawn. Nature Publishing Group 1972-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2008330/ /pubmed/5014755 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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