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Pathologic and molecular heterogeneity in imatinib-stable or imatinib-responsive gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jan 2007
Agaram Narasimhan P, Besmer Peter, Wong Grace C, Guo Tianhua, Socci Nicholas D, Maki Robert G, DeSantis Diann, Brennan Murray F, Singer Samuel, DeMatteo Ronald P, Antonescu Cristina R
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PURPOSE: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common sarcoma of the intestinal tract. Nearly all tumors express KIT protein, and most have an activating mutation in either KIT or PDGFRA. Therapy with selective tyrosine kinase inhibitors achieves a partial response or stable disease i...
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