There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood. A retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as ...

UCLA researchers have created a new system to produce human T cells, the white blood cells that fight against disease-causing intruders in the body. The system could be utilized to engineer T cells to ...

Dear Doctor Roach: I have recently learned that my sibling, age 70, has rare cancer of the thymus. She will be getting chemotherapy and perhaps radiation treatment. I have heard of immunotherapy. Is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current treatments for thymic cancers did not significantly increase risk for cardiovascular disease, according ...

Promontory Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company advancing small molecule oncology approaches with immunotherapeutic effects, today announced that the pre-specified efficacy ...

Scientists have mapped the thymus, a gland in the chest that makes disease-fighting white blood cells, across the human life span. This “cell atlas” could help researchers understand how thymus cells ...

A new preclinical model for thymic cancer has revealed insights into how a common mutation found in thymic epithelial tumors sparks their formation. The model may help speed the development of ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Thymus Cancer Market: Global Industry Analysis, Trends, Market Size, and Forecasts up to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3hx53l/thymus_cancer) has announced the addition of the "Thymus Cancer ...

The combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel compared favorably with standard anthracycline-based chemotherapy in the treatment of thymic carcinoma, according to results of a multicenter phase 2 ...

Sunitinib (Sutent, Pfizer) has shown activity in the second-line treatment of thymic cancer, a disease where numerous other agents have been tested and failed. The results come from the first clinical ...