The Place and the Role of Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Thymic Carcinoma

Thymic carcinomas arise from the epithelial cells of the thymus gland and are the most common tumors of the anterior mediastinum despite their overall rarity. Because of their rarity, their treatment remains a challenging topic. Although historically they have been treated surgically, radiation ther...

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Autores principales: Pinelopi-Theopisti, Memtsa, Aikaterini, Papadopoulou, Ariadni, Kyriakogiannaki, Chrysoula, Iliopoulou, Panagiotis, Pantelis, Martha, Charalambidou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983372
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon972e
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author Pinelopi-Theopisti, Memtsa
Aikaterini, Papadopoulou
Ariadni, Kyriakogiannaki
Chrysoula, Iliopoulou
Panagiotis, Pantelis
Martha, Charalambidou
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description Thymic carcinomas arise from the epithelial cells of the thymus gland and are the most common tumors of the anterior mediastinum despite their overall rarity. Because of their rarity, their treatment remains a challenging topic. Although historically they have been treated surgically, radiation therapy (RT) has an important role either as a definitive or as a postoperative treatment. In this article, we present a review of the current therapies for the thymic carcinomas and try to identify the exact place of the RT in the optimal management of these patients.
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spelling pubmed-56246492017-10-05 The Place and the Role of Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Thymic Carcinoma Pinelopi-Theopisti, Memtsa Aikaterini, Papadopoulou Ariadni, Kyriakogiannaki Chrysoula, Iliopoulou Panagiotis, Pantelis Martha, Charalambidou World J Oncol Review Thymic carcinomas arise from the epithelial cells of the thymus gland and are the most common tumors of the anterior mediastinum despite their overall rarity. Because of their rarity, their treatment remains a challenging topic. Although historically they have been treated surgically, radiation therapy (RT) has an important role either as a definitive or as a postoperative treatment. In this article, we present a review of the current therapies for the thymic carcinomas and try to identify the exact place of the RT in the optimal management of these patients. Elmer Press 2016-12 2016-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5624649/ /pubmed/28983372 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon972e Text en Copyright 2016, Pinelopi-Theopisti et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pinelopi-Theopisti, Memtsa
Aikaterini, Papadopoulou
Ariadni, Kyriakogiannaki
Chrysoula, Iliopoulou
Panagiotis, Pantelis
Martha, Charalambidou
The Place and the Role of Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Thymic Carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624649/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon972e
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