How would you manage a patient with a small Type A Thymoma, who is not a candidate for resection due to medical co-morbidities?
NCCN recommends chemoRT for unresectable, “locally advanced, advanced or recurrent disease” but is chemoRT necessary in a small (e.g. 2.5cm), Type A case?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Surgical resection still remains the gold standard for thymic tumors, with the ultimate goal of achieving an en bloc removal of the thymus and perithymic fat without tumor capsule violation. Nevertheless, there is mounting evidence that minimally invasive surgical thymectomy approaches (robotic...