Rare Cancer Series | Thymic Cancers

Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, highlights the difficulties with funding for research focused on rare cancers.

Yongfeng He, PhD, discusses the identification of the GTF2I L424H mutation in mouse models of thymic cancer.

Yongfeng He, PhD, discusses how the presence of the GTF2I L424H mutation in thymic epithelial cells induced thymic tumors in mouse models.

Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, discusses recent data with investigational therapies for patients with thymic cancer.

Giuseppe Giaconne, MD, PhD, discusses why thymic cancers can be difficult to classify histologically, so the actual incidence is unclear.

Giuseppe Giaconne, MD, PhD, and Yongfeng He, PhD, discuss how cancers of the thymus, a small organ located in the mediastinum above the heart, are uncommon and understudied.

Recent developments in cancers of the thymus, a small organ located in the mediastinum above the heart, have shined a light on a malignancy that only affects about 400 Americans annually.