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massgeneralbrigham.org
Long Dismissed in Adult Health, the Thymus May Be Critical for Longevity and Cancer Treatment | Mass General Brigham
Two new studies from investigators ... (AI) to analyze routine CT scans, researchers uncovered that <strong>adults with a healthy thymus had increased longevity and reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer</strong>....
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geneonline.com
AI Uncovers Adult Thymus as a Master Regulator of Cancer Immunotherapy Efficacy and Longevity - GeneOnline News
Researchers applied artificial ... demonstrate that <strong>a healthy adult thymus boosts longevity, guards against cardiovascular disease, and plays a decisive role in cancer immunotherapy outcomes</strong>....
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sciencedaily.com
The forgotten organ that could predict how long you live | ScienceDaily
Researchers at Mass General Brigham ... that <strong>people with healthier thymuses—a small immune-system organ once thought to become largely irrelevant after childhood—lived longer and had substantially lower risks of heart disease, cancer, and death.</strong>...
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erictopol.substack.com
Your Thymus and Your Healthspan - by Eric Topol
And to make things even more complicated, our thymus gland anatomy and precise location in the chest also is highly variable. So the famous Frank Netter diagrams from the 1960s (such as at left below) don’t capture the remarkable heterogeneity that a random set of 12 chest CT scans (below at right). What I consider as 2 landmark papers in Nature this week (here and here) used AI to quantify health of the thymus in 2 large cohorts, and then correlate the metric to a broad array of health outcomes.
news.harvard.edu
Thymus may be critical to adult health — Harvard Gazette
Two new studies led by ... CT scans, researchers uncovered that <strong>adults with a healthy thymus had increased longevity and reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer</strong>....
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healthcare-in-europe.com
“The thymus has been overlooked for decades” • healthcare-in-europe.com
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze routine CT scans, researchers uncovered that adults with a healthy thymus had increased longevity and reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer. In a separate study of patients with cancer, the researchers found that thymic health may influence response to immunotherapy—a treatment that depends on the strength of a patient’s immune system.
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