Erschienen in:
01.01.2007
Treatment of Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: a Marriage of Targeted Therapy and Surgery?
verfasst von:
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 1/2007
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Excerpt
In this issue, Andtbacka et al. report their experience with using the combination of preoperative tyrosine kinase inhibition (TKI) for locally unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). These two types of advanced GIST are quite distinct from a biologic and therapeutic perspective. Therefore, it would have been preferable to consider them separately, instead of combining the data in several places in the manuscript (e.g., Tables 1 and 3). Locally unresectable and metastatic GIST will be addressed sequentially here. …