Article
Preoperative adjuvant therapy for locally advanced and recurrent/metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a retrospective study
2020-02-25
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Preoperative imatinib mesylate therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) is controversial. This study aimed to explore the clinical efficacy and optimal duration of preoperative imatinib mesylate (IM) therapy in patients with locally advanced and recurrent/metastatic GISTs. Methods We retrospectively examined patients who received preoperative imatinib mesylate ther...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 04f4d657-6c6b-5452-b0ce-d4df34ef0696
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.24460/v1
