TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bian, Dongliang
AU  - Ge, Tao
AU  - Song, Nan
AU  - Zhang, Peng
AU  - Zhang, Helin
AU  - Fei, Ke
PY  - 2019
TI  - The secondary surgery provides significant benefits to recurrent thymoma: a retrospective analysis based on Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database
JF  - Translational Cancer Research; Vol 8, No 3 (June 29, 2019): Translational Cancer Research
Y2  - 2019
KW  - 
N2  - Background: Recurrent thymoma (RT) with appropriate therapies has acceptable survival. The role of secondary surgery for RT remains controversial.  Methods: Surgical treated thymoma patients were reviewed from Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (SEER). Propensity score matching (PSM) was utilized to match baseline factors to balance secondary surgical treated RT and thymoma without recurrence (NRT). Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to evaluate the role of secondary surgery for RT.  Results: According to analysis, 815 patients were NRT, and 185 were RT. Surgical treated RT had significantly better overall survival (OS) than conservative treated RT (P
UR  - https://tcr.amegroups.org/article/view/29072