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After Yolanda Cartusciello and her husband were taken to the Emergency Department at °µÍřTV Langone Hospital—Brooklyn following a car accident, routine tests revealed the presence of a stage 2 thymoma resting on top of Cartusciello’s heart. Thymomas are rare cancers that form on the surface of the thymus.
Travis C. Geraci, MD, assistant professor in the at °µÍřTV Grossman School of Medicine and a thoracic surgeon at Perlmutter Cancer Center—Sunset Park, removed Cartusciello’s thymoma along with a tumor found in her uterus.
“Thymomas are dangerous because they don’t create a lot of symptoms, so patients aren’t aware that they’re there,” Dr. Geraci tells News 12 Brooklyn. “It’s a very, very rare tumor of the anterior chest. It’s about 1.5 cases per million people.”
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