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Efficacy of erlotinib and imatinib in a patient with a rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumor and synchronous pulmonary adenocarcinoma: A case report.
The journal of medical investigation : JMI - 1 Jan 2016
Miyoshi Takanori, Mori Riho, Amano Sachiko, Sumitomo Hiroyuki, Aoyama Mariko, Inoue Seiya, Hino Naoki, Wada Daisuke
Abstract excerpt
The synchronous existence of lung cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) is considered to be extremely rare. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report about the treatment of lung cancer and GIST with two kinds of molecular targeting drugs. An 83-year-old woman with a rectal GIST, which carried a c-kit mutation, and pulmonary adenocarcinoma, which exhibited an epidermal growth factor...
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