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Novel Insights into the Treatment of Imatinib-Resistant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
Targeted oncology - 1 Jun 2017
Serrano César, George Suzanne, Valverde Claudia, Olivares David, García-Valverde Alfonso, Suárez Cristina, Morales-Barrera Rafael, Carles Joan
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) have emerged as a compelling clinical and biological model for the rational development of therapeutic strategies targeting critical oncogenic events over the past two decades. Oncogenic activation of KIT or PDGFRA receptor tyrosine kinases is the crucial driver for GIST tumor initiation, transformation, and cancer cell proliferation. Three tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs)...
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