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Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
How does metaplastic thymoma histology impact your decision regarding adjuvant radiation?
E.g. would it prompt you to offer adjuvant RT in Masaoka IIA? Does the histology have a different prognosis?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a good question. I honestly have never seen this histology, and I help write the UpToDate thymoma section and am a thymoma enthusiast (meaning I like to read about it/treat it, not to have it). Thymomas really run the spectrum of aggressiveness, and the approach to them in the adjuvant setti...
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