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What is New in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor?
Advances in anatomic pathology - 1 Sept 2017
Schaefer Inga-Marie, Mariño-Enríquez Adrián, Fletcher Jonathan A
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The classification "gastrointestinal stromal tumor" (GIST) became commonplace in the 1990s and since that time various advances have characterized the GIST lineage of origin, tyrosine kinase mutations, and mechanisms of response and resistance to targeted therapies. In addition to tyrosine kinase mutations and their constitutive activation of downstream signaling pathways, GISTs acquire a sequence of chromosomal...
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