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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: Genotype Frequency and Prognostic Relevance.
Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM - 1 Mar 2018
Kumari Niraj, Priyaa Valli, Shukla Pooja, Kumar Ashok, Aggarwal Rakesh, Krishnani Narendra
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BACKGROUND: Genotyping has an important role in the prognosis and prediction of response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy. KIT exon 11 deletions serve as an adverse prognostic marker. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) genotype has been described in developed countries; however, data from India are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine the genotype frequency and its prognostic relevance....
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