Long-term outcome and prognostic factors of surgically treated thymic carcinoma: results of 306 cases from a Japanese Nationwide Database Study
Author(s) -
Tomoyuki Hishida,
Shogo Nomura,
Motoki Yano,
Hisao Asamura,
Motohiro Yamashita,
Yasuhisa Ohde,
Keishi Kondo,
Hiroshi Date,
Meinoshin Okumura,
Kanji Nagai
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezv239
Subject(s) - medicine , thymic carcinoma , debulking , perioperative , hazard ratio , malignancy , carcinoma , stage (stratigraphy) , radiation therapy , proportional hazards model , surgery , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , cancer , gastroenterology , chemotherapy , paleontology , ovarian cancer , biology
Thymic carcinoma is a rare thymic malignancy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of clinicopathological variables and perioperative therapy for surgically treated thymic carcinoma using a nationwide database.
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