Updated outcomes of surgical treatment for recurrent thymic tumour: a report from the Japanese nationwide database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to analyse the surgical outcomes for recurrent thymic epithelial tumours and identify the factors associated with post-recurrence survival, using an updated Japanese nationwide database.

Methods

The cohort that developed recurrence after the initial resection was extracted from an updated database of patients whose thymic epithelial tumours were treated surgically between 1991 and 2010. Furthermore, we reviewed clinicopathological and prognostic factors of re-resected cases. Post-recurrence survival outcomes and cause-specific deaths in non-re-resected cases were also reviewed.

Results

We enrolled 191 patients who underwent re-resection and 259 patients who did not. In the surgery group, more patients with early stage disease, less aggressi

SUBMITTER: Mizuno T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11193311 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature