Society guideline links: Thymomas and thymic carcinomas

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Myasthenia gravis".)

Canada

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Surgical radiation, and systemic treatments of patients with thymic epithelial tumours (2022)

United States

●National Cancer Institute (NCI): Childhood thymoma and thymic carcinoma treatment – Health professional version

●NCI: Thymoma and thymic carcinoma treatment (adult) – Health professional version

●Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS): Expert consensus document on the surgical management of thymomas (2024)

●American Academy of Neurology (AAN): Practice advisory on thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, practice parameter update (2020, reaffirmed 2023)

Europe

●European Cooperative Study Group for Pediatric Rare Tumors (EXPeRT)/Paediatric Rare Tumours Network - European Registry (PARTNER): Diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations on thymoma and thymic carcinoma in children and adolescents (2021)

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of thymic epithelial tumours (2015)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Lung Cancer Society (JLCS): Lung cancer practice guidelines – Part 3: Thymic tumor clinical practice guidelines, version 1.1, 2020 (published 2021)