Single Gene Helps Distinguish Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Thymomas

Researchers have discovered a single gene which may define the difference between a fast growing tumor and a slow growing tumor for Thymoma, a rare form of cancer.Thymoma is a cancer derived from the epithelial cells of the thymus, an organ critical to the lymphatic system where T-cells, or so-called "killer cells," mature. Very little is known about the role of the gene mutation GTF2l in human tumors, but scientists from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer ...

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