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Neoadjuvant Imatinib in Locally Advanced Gastrointestinal stromal Tumours, Will Kit Mutation Analysis Be a Pathfinder?
Journal of gastrointestinal cancer - 1 Dec 2016
Ramaswamy Anant, Ostwal Vikas, Shetty Omshree, Sahu Arvind, Paul Davinder, Pai Trupti, Gurav Mamta, Shetty Nitin, Shrikhande Shailesh
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INTRODUCTION: Longer duration of neoadjuvant (NA) imatinib (IM) used for locally advanced (LA) gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) is not based on biology of the tumour reflected by kit mutation analysis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: LA or locally recurrent (LR) GIST treated with NA IM from May 2008 to March 2015 from a prospective database were included in the analysis. Archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded...
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