Malignant epithelial tumours of the thymus: survival after radiotherapy.
This study describes 26 patients with histologically proven malignant epithelial thymic tumours seen at one radiotherapy centre between 1965 and 1980. Twenty-three patients had mediastinal radiotherapy and the overall 5-year survival rate (corrected for intercurrent death) of this group was 35%. Those patients in which there was complete surgical removal of the tumour had a good prognosis. Where this was not achieved, the prognosis was poor.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004739:England; D004848:Epithelium; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*