Chemotherapy

Source: Childhood Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Treatment (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version, National Cancer Institute.

Source updated: September 12, 2024 · Captured 2026-09-09.

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Context: Childhood Thymoma / Treatment of Childhood Thymoma

Chemotherapy is usually reserved for patients with advanced-stage disease who have not responded to radiation therapy or corticosteroids. Agents that have been effective include doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, etoposide, cisplatin, ifosfamide, and vincristine.[1,7,10] Responses to regimens containing combinations of some of these agents have ranged from 26% to 100%, and survival rates have been as high as 50%.[9-12]

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