Treatment Option Overview for Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

The primary treatment for patients with thymoma or thymic carcinoma is surgical resection with en bloc resection for invasive tumors, if possible.[1-3] Depending on tumor stage, multimodality treatment options—including the use of radiation therapy and chemotherapy with or without surgery—may be used.[4,5] The optimal strategy for induction therapy, which minimizes operative morbidity and mortality and optimizes resectability rates and ultimately survival, remains unknown. A review of the management of thymic epithelial tumors has been published.[1]