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I have been diagnosed with a low risk thymoma (anterior mediastinal mass). It measures 3.5x2cms.

I have had two scans. The PET scan says there is no activity in the mass.



The surgeon has offered me surgery using robotics surgery but has also sai...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/benign-thymoma/posts/to-surgery-or-not-to-surgery"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=722920&amp;AppID=42863&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>butch</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/b943799a92d44726b593dc900456b62d</uri></author></entry></feed>