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Prognostic Factors for Cure, Recurrence and Long-Term Survival After Surgical Resection of Thymoma

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Source URL: http://journals.lww.com/jto/Abstract/2014/07000/Prognostic_Factors_for_Cure,_Rec…

Author(s)

Safieddine, Najib; Liu, Geoffrey; Cuningham, Kris; Ming, Tsao; Hwang, David; Brade, Anthony; Bezjak, Andrea; Fischer, Stefan; Xu, Wei; Azad, Sassan; Cypel, Marcelo; Darling, Gail; Yasufuku, Kazu; Pierre, Andrew; de Perrot, Marc; Waddell, Tom; Keshavjee, Shaf

This single institution study evaluated prognostic factors in 262 pts undergoing thymectomy for thymic tumors over a 25-year period. The majority of tumors were Masaoka stage II and the most common histology was WHO type B. 15 year survival was 91%. Recurrence was related to Masaoka stage and tumor size.