Management of gastrointestinal stromal tumours in the Imatinib era: a surgeon's perspective

BACKGROUND: Surgical resection has remained the mainstay of treatment of GIST with a 5-year-survival of 28–35%. Tyrosine kinase inhibitor (Imatinib) has revolutionised the treatment of these tumours. The current research is directed towards expanding the role of this drug in the treatment of GIST. W...

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Autores principales: Date, Ravindra S, Stylianides, Nicholas A, Pursnani, Kishore G, Ward, Jeremy B, Mughal, Muntzer M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18644105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-77

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