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Samuel Hume

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I’m a doctor-scientist, I write about progress in medicine

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The thymus loses most of its size as we get older, so how important actually is the thymus in adults? This study found an answer by comparing patients who'd had thymectomy (removal of the thymus) with matched control patients (who'd had similar surgery, but not thymectomy)

The thymus loses most of its size as we get older, so how important actually is the thymus in adults? This study found an answer by comparing patients who'd had thymectomy (removal of the thymus) with matched control patients (who'd had similar surgery, but not thymectomy)