Thymoma: What it is, Symptoms and Treatment

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They are both malignant neoplasms, but with a difference in terms of aggressiveness and metastasizing power: thymoma, in fact, tends to grow more slowly and remain confined to the chest, while thymic carcinoma is more aggressive and is often associated with distant metastases .

Thymoma, which can grow and spread in the absence of treatment, tends to grow slowly and expand locally in the chest, while thymic carcinoma is generally more aggressive and is more often responsible for distant metastases.

Thymoma and thymic carcinoma are the main representatives of the neoplastic category known as tumors of the thymus