For decades, the thymus has been regarded as a vestigial organ of childhood, essential for T-cell education early in life, but thought to lose relevance as it involutes into fatty tissue after adolesc...

New evidence shows that unintended radiation exposure to the thymus during lung cancer treatment may lead to worse outcomes.

Mass General Brigham researchers have shown that unintended thymus irradiation worsens outcomes in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

Until recently, the thymus was thought to be of little use beyond puberty, but new research has shown that radiation to the organ is associated with worse outcomes in patients being treated for non-sm...

Nova istraživanja pokazuju da timus, mala žlijezda u prsnom košu, zadržava svoju važnost i u odrasloj [...]