Noninvasive Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
Treatment of noninvasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma may include the following1:
- Surgery to remove the tumor.
- Radiation therapy.
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with noninvasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma.
Invasive Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
Treatment of invasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma that may be completely removed by surgery includes the following:
- Surgery followed by radiation therapy.
- A clinical trial of other new treatments.
Treatment of invasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma that cannot be removed completely by surgery includes the following:
- Surgery to remove part of the tumor, followed by radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy.
- A clinical trial of chemotherapy using one or more anticancer drugs.
- A clinical trial of chemotherapy before surgery, with or without radiation therapy.
- A clinical trial of combination chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy.
- A clinical trial of other new treatments.
This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with invasive thymoma and thymic carcinoma.
Recurrent Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
Treatment of recurrent thymoma and thymic carcinoma may include the following:
- Surgery with or without radiation therapy.
- Radiation therapy.
- Hormone therapy.
- A clinical trial of chemotherapy using one or more anticancer drugs.
- A clinical trial of other new treatments.
This summary section refers to specific treatments under study in clinical trials, but it may not mention every new treatment being studied. Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site.
Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with recurrent thymoma and thymic carcinoma.
1 Note: The text and images above are in the public domain and were reproduced or adapted from the websites of the National Cancer Institute (NCI): http://www.cancer.gov/ and http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/.