[Clinical Study of Nine Surgical Cases of Thymic Carcinoma]

Several reports are available on the effectiveness of multimodal therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy before and after surgery, in addition to surgical resection, as the treatment for thymic carcinoma. However, the sensitivity of each treatment modality varies according to the histological subtype of the carcinoma. Nine patients with thymic carcinoma treated at our hospital were reviewed retrospectively for staging( based on Masaoka's classification), histological findings, surgical method, preoperative and postoperative adjuvant therapy, and prognosis. Differences in the prognosis and treatment response of same-stage thymic carcinomas may be attributable to a difference in histological subtype. The choice of treatment may depend on the histological subtype.