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Thymoma type AB

high confidenceSubtype of disorder

Publications

129

62.9th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

783

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (5)

mixed type thymoma · primary thymic epithelial neoplasm type AB · primary thymic epithelial tumor type AB · primary thymic epithelial tumour type AB · thymoma type AB

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    129 matched papers (81 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 74 for broader category thymoma

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

129

129 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

129 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

81 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 62.9th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 129 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

783

Distinct author names in 129 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    Wang Y5 papers · 2021

    Clinical Trial Center, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Fang W4 papers · 2020

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Liu Y4 papers · 2025

    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Marx A4 papers · 2024

    Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg Mannheim, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Ströbel P4 papers · 2024

    Institute of Pathology, University of Goettingen Goettingen, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Zhang J4 papers · 2026

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Belharazem D3 papers · 2022

    Institute of Pathology, University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg Mannheim, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Ishikawa M3 papers · 2022

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada-machi, Kahoku-gun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Li Y3 papers · 2025

    Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Schalke B3 papers · 2022

    Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg Regensburg, Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 74 trials are registered for thymoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

74 interventional trials matched thymoma, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: thymoma

74

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Thymoma type AB" OR "mixed type thymoma" OR "primary thymic epithelial neoplasm type AB" OR "primary thymic epithelial tumor type AB" OR "primary thymic epithelial tumour type AB"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Thymoma type AB" OR "mixed type thymoma" OR "primary thymic epithelial neoplasm type AB" OR "primary thymic epithelial tumor type AB" OR "primary thymic epithelial tumour type AB"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"thymoma"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T11:19:16.191Z