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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors treated with surgery are the gold standard. If the tumor hasn’t spread and can be safely removed, that’s the best chance of a cure [3] .

Aznab, M. and Akhmadi, S.M. (2018) Long-Term Results of Adjuvant Imatinib Treatment for Localized Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors after Surgery. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 19, 39-43.

It means collecting data about your body and your cancer on a molecular level to match you with a drug that has the biggest impact and minimal side effects for your specific type of tumor. Imatinib is ...

Most advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) start with cancer-causing cell changes, or mutations, in specific genes. Changes in proteins called KIT and PDGFRA most commonly cause this ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) GISTs can develop anywhere in your digestive tract but are common in your stomach, especially in people older than 60 years old . Small GISTs may simply ...

Bleeding in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can stem from several causes that affect any of the organs in the upper digestive system. An upper GI bleed is bleeding in the mouth, esophagus (food tube), ...

If you have advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), you may not know anyone else with the disease. ... Standard chemotherapy and radiation therapy don’t work as well on GIST tumors.

Abstract. In view of the morphological similarity between gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) and other sarcomas of the intestine of dogs, the aim was to carry out the histomorphological and ...