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ThymicUK is a registered charity established by patients with thymic cancers, their carers, and families and friends.
Our purposes are to provide support, advocate and share information, facilitate research and ultimately to improve the treatments available for these rare cancers in the United Kingdom. Through these endeavours ThymicUK hopes to increase the overall survival and quality of life of patients with thymic cancers.
We do not offer medical advice but we have an active Facebook group where experiences and information can be shared and we hold regular virtual and face to face meetings. ThymicUK is a member of the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) Thymic Malignancy Special Interest Group.
I had difficulty swallowing, breathlessness, heart pounding and tightness in the chest. I asked for a spirometry breathing test at the beginning of 2020 but shortly after Covid began our surgery didn’t offer it anymore. In 2022 I paid to get it done privately. The consultant suggested I also pay
Back in Nov 2021 I developed a cough, more annoying than persistent, not enough to think it was anything too serious. In December I took part in a charity boxing match to raise money for cancer research- ironic, I know! After the fight I coughed for a good few hours
Thymus gland cancers are cancers which start in the thymus gland located in the chest between the lungs. Cancers of the thymus gland are rare. The majority of such cancers are called thymomas.
There is also a much rarer form of thymus gland cancer called thymic carcinoma.
Thymomas and thymic carcinomas are cancers of the cells (called epithelial cells) that line the thymus gland.
Our goal is for more research to go into possible treatments for thymic cancers. We can help researchers by providing the information they need.
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