The Way Ahead: Lessons Learned from Decades of Cancer Research on Thymomas and Thymic Carcinomas

Overview

Journal Cancers (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Oncology

Date 2024 Mar 13

PMID 38473397

Authors

Philipp Strobel

Alexander Marx

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Abstract

The history of thymoma (TH) research begins in the early 20th century, when Bell first recognized the epithelial nature of these tumors and their association with myasthenia gravis (MG) [...].

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