Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is a type of cancer that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, particularly in the stomach and small intestine. Cancer happens when the cells in the body grow ...

Total 497 GIST patients were involved in present study, with a median age of 60 years (range 23–90) and 55.9% was male. Stomach and small bowel were the most common sites of primary disease (59. ...

Sometimes these tumors are even unexpectedly found on autopsy. Approximately 50 to 70 percent of GISTs occur in the stomach and 20 to 30 percent in the small intestine, with the rest scattered in ...

Gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors: clinical features and short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic resection. Maciej Stanek, Magdalena Pisarska, Dorota Budzyńska, Anna Rzepa, Michał ...

Hirota S et al. (1998) Gain-of-function mutations of c-kit in human gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Science 279: 577–580. Article CAS Google Scholar . Gold JS and Dematteo RP (2006) Combined ...

Outcomes of multivisceral resection of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Sabha Ganai , Mitchell Posner , Vivek N. Prachand , John C. Alverdy , Eugene A. Choi , Irving Waxman , Marco G. Patti , ...

The unnamed 70-year-old woman from the U.K. had a rare cancer called a giant gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor, according to a case study published in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

Cause of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are soft-tissue sarcomas found in the digestive system, commonly occurring in the stomach and small intestine.

Although the incidence of GISTs is rising in the oriental population, available document on this area is still limited, especially studies with large sample size in a single center. This study ...