What's the prognosis of thymic cancer?

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Thymic carcinoma is a malignant tumor derived from thymic epithelial cells, which was misdiagnosed before. The incidence rate of thymic carcinoma is low. Let's take a look at the following.

What's the prognosis of thymic cancer?

First, most cases of thymic cancer have clinical symptoms, only 10% of them were found by physical examination. The most common chest pain is blunt pain, and severe tearing pain indicates bone involvement; Secondly, there were cough, obstruction of superior vena cava or recurrent laryngeal nerve invasion; The general manifestations included low fever, fatigue, night sweats, weight loss and anorexia.

Second, unlike thymoma, thymic cancer is rarely associated with extrathoracic syndrome. The clinical manifestations of thymic carcinoma and malignant thymoma are very similar, but the symptoms of thymic carcinoma compression and displacement of mediastinal structure are more obvious, the course of disease is more rapid, and some cases have extrathoracic metastasis at the time of diagnosis.

Third: in chest X-ray and chest CT examination, thymic carcinoma often presents as mass shadow in the anterior superior mediastinum, which is characterized by large mass, obvious protruding to one or both pleural cavities, homogeneous mass density, no calcification, unclear boundary with surrounding organ structure, suggesting that the tumor has invaded adjacent organs.

matters needing attention

Such as vena cava or aorta. When the tumor invades pericardium, mediastinum, pleura or lung tissue, the tumor and the above involved tissue can be removed together.