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Prognostic significance of c-kit mutation in localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 May 2004
Kim Tae Won, Lee Hyoungnam, Kang Yoon-Koo, Choe Mi Sun, Ryu Min-Hee, Chang Heung Moon, Kim Jung Sun, Yook Jeong Hwan, Kim Byung Sik, Lee Jung Shin
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PURPOSE: Constitutive mutational activation of c-kit has been found to be associated with the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). The prognostic significance of c-kit mutations, however, is still controversial. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We examined 86 patients curatively resected for localized GIST. Genomic DNA was extracted from paraffin-embedded tumor tissues. Exons 9, 11, 13, and 17 of the...
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