Development of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group International Database: An Unprecedented Resource for the Study of a Rare Group of Tumors
Huang J, Ahmad U, Antonicelli A, Catlin AC, Fang W, Gomez D, Loehrer P, Lucchi M, Marom E, Nicholson A, Ruffini E, Travis W, Van Schil P, Wakelee H, Yao X, Detterbeck F, Committee and Contributors O. Development of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group International Database: An Unprecedented Resource for the Study of a Rare Group of Tumors. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2014, 9: 1573-1578. PMID: 25521402, DOI: 10.1097/jto.0000000000000269.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInternational Thymic Malignancy Interest GroupThymic carcinomaThymic carcinoidMedian overall survivalSingle-institution seriesOverall survivalThymic malignanciesMyasthenia gravisRare tumorHistologic classificationSex distributionThymomaCarcinoidsCarcinomaRetrospective dataType B2Rare groupTumorsPatientsMalignancyGreater proportionInternational databasesYearsGravisGroup