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Surgical management of patients with progressing metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors receiving sunitinib treatment: A prospective cohort study.
International journal of surgery (London, England) - 1 Mar 2017
Yeh Chun-Nan, Wang Shang-Yu, Tsai Chun-Yi, Chen Yen-Yang, Liu Ching-Ting, Chiang Kun-Chun, Chen Tsung-Wen, Liu Yu-Yin, Yeh Ta-Sen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: For selected patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who have received first-line imatinib (IM) and are undergoing cytoreductive surgery, response to IM at time of surgery correlates with resection completeness as well as favorable progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). However, surgical impact in GIST patients receiving second-line sunitinib (SU) is still...
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