“They said probable thymoma,” Lauren Barchanowicz says. Cancer of the thymus gland remains “very rare,” Dr. Ranjita Pallavi, ...

There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood. A recent retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as ...

Cell therapy biotech Tolerance Bio has unveiled with $17.2 million and a mission of targeting immune diseases by stretching ...

Credit: NIAID In the early 1960s, Professor Jaques Miller discovered the essential role of the thymus in our immune systems while working as a PhD student at The Institute of Cancer Research in London ...

The list of treated children was checked against cancer files started in 1940 by ... The total x-ray dose used to treat enlarged thymus glands in the 1930's often exceeded 400 to 500 r.

Children who were stripped of their Thymus glands during complex heart surgery may be more susceptible to all forms of disease and illness, our investigation has revealed. Scandal-hit Alder Hey ...

Your pancreas is a gland that makes enzymes to digest your ... you may not have symptoms of pancreatic cancer until after it has grown large or spread to other organs. (Photo Credit: Science ...

As Dr. Jarrod Dudakov puts it, “The thymus is a really special organ. On one hand, it’s incredibly sensitive to acute insults like infection, stress, or the radiation and chemotherapies we use to ...

Migratory DCs carry peripheral self antigens into the thymus and thereby may extend the scope of intrathymically presented self antigens. Other biological implications of the heterogeneity of ...

At Memorial Sloan Kettering, we know that even after you’ve finished treatment for salivary gland cancer, you may still need our help. We’re committed to supporting you in every way we can — ...

This is usually temporary and lasts from a few weeks to a couple of months. Minor salivary gland cancer can occur in your lips, tongue, roof of the mouth (palate), inner cheek, throat, voice box ...

Scientists suggest that lactate, a metabolic by-product produced by cells during exercise, can rejuvenate immune cells that fight cancer. This could be used to develop new strategies for anti-cancer ...