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Not claiming it's wrong, especially because it looks like this is an important organ re: immune response, but > It is typically removed due to issues with the
by charles_f 3y ago
Not claiming it's wrong, especially because it looks like this is an important organ re: immune response, but
> It is typically removed due to issues with the organ itself, such as thymus cancer
> The magnitude of death and cancer in patients who had undergone thymectomy was the biggest surprise for me
Isn't having had cancer the best predictor of having cancer in the future? And so if the main cause of Thymus removal is cancer, seeing cancer after its removal is not very statistically significant?