Cardiovascular risk factors play greater role in adverse outcomes in thymic cancer patients
Thymic cancer, a rare type of cancer that has brought patients to Indiana University Health in recent years for treatment, has become the subject of further study between investigators from the Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center and the Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center at Indiana University School of Medicine, and collaborators at Regenstrief Institute. The researchers wanted to explore cardiovascular risk factors for adverse outcomes among people with and without thymic cancer. Results of their study was published in Frontiers.
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