Cancer of thymus

 

Majorities:   The cancer of the thymus (timoma malignant) is a disease in which they are cancerous cell s (you vitiate) in weave s of the thymus. The thymus is a small organ that is in the superior mediastino. It enables white globules called lymphocytes in the first months of life, which travel by the body to fight infections. The adult animals east organ atrophy and becomes afuncional. This cancer is very little frequent in canine s and still more in felines and these often they have other disease is of the immune system. For I diagnose differential with other types of tumors that affect the thymus you would be deberan to consider the cysts (of epithelial origin) and the true Hiperplasias Timicas timicos.

Symptoms:  Sintomatologia agrees with that of the respiratory tumors (specially others of the mediastino):

• persistent cough,
• respiratory difficulty
• anorexy
• lethargy
• thinning

For his I diagnose is used a x-ray of the thorax. Also it can make a computerized tomografía, that is a type of special x-ray in which a computer is used to draw up an image of the body of the patient (of very difficult veterinary medicine access).

Treatment:

• surgery (extraction of the cancer in an operation, the surgery to extract the tumor is the treatment commonest for timoma. The veterinary doctor also can extract the lymphatic ganglia or the weave located around the cancer. )
• x-ray (the radiation for timoma by the eral gene comes outside from a located machine of the body (x-ray of external beam). The x-ray can be used single or in addition to the surgery
• hormonal therapy (hormone use to prevent the growth of cancerous cell s, ej. steroids)
• The chemotherapy (medicine use to eliminate cancerous cell s).

I foretell:    The probability of recovering and the selection of the treatment depend on the stage in which is the cancer (if it is solely in the thymus or if it has been scattered to other places), of the type of cell s that is in the cancer and of the state of health canine eral gene of or the feline one.

 

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