Treatment-related information (surgery, drugs, clinical trials, etc.) is included in the Treatment page of our website.
For excellent overview summaries about GIST, see the following sources.
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| Mechanisms of oncogenic KIT signal transduction in primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). |
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| Protein Kinase C theta (PKCtheta) expression and constitutive activation in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). |
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| Carney triad: case report and molecular analysis of gastric tumor. |
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PMID: 15712189
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| Use of c-KIT/PDGFRA mutational analysis to predict the clinical response to imatinib in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours entered on phase I and II studies of the EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group. |
| Debiec-Rychter M, Dumez H, Judson I, Wasag B, Verweij J, Brown M, Dimitrijevic S, Sciot R, Stul M, Vranck H, Scurr M, Hagemeijer A, van Glabbeke M, van Oosterom AT; EORTC Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group.
Eur J Cancer. 2004 Mar;40(5):689-95.
PMID: 15010069
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| Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) negative for KIT (CD117 antigen) immunoreactivity. |
| Debiec-Rychter M, Wasag B, Stul M, De Wever I, Van Oosterom A, Hagemeijer A, Sciot R.
J Pathol. 2004 Apr;202(4):430-8.
PMID: 15095270
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| Pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcoma. |
| Cypriano MS, Jenkins JJ, Pappo AS, Rao BN, Daw NC.
Cancer. 2004 Jul 1;101(1):39-50.
PMID: 15221987
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| Biology of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. |
| Corless CL, Fletcher JA, Heinrich MC.
J Clin Oncol. 2004 Sep 15;22(18):3813-25. Review.
PMID: 15365079
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| PDGFRA mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: frequency, spectrum and in vitro sensitivity to imatinib. |
| Corless CL, Schroeder A, Griffith D, Town A, McGreevey L, Harrell P, Shiraga S, Bainbridge T, Morich J, Heinrich MC.
J Clin Oncol. 2005 Aug 10;23(23):5357-64. Epub 2005 May 31. Review.
PMID: 15928335
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| PDGFRA germline mutation in a family with multiple cases of gastrointestinal stromal tumor. |
| Chompret A, Kannengiesser C, Barrois M, Terrier P, Dahan P, Tursz T, Lenoir GM, Bressac-De Paillerets B.
Gastroenterology. 2004 Jan;126(1):318-21.
PMID: 14699510
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| Neurofibromatosis with gastrointestinal stromal tumors: insights into the association. |
| Cheng SP, Huang MJ, Yang TL, Tzen CY, Liu CL, Liu TP, Hsiao SC.
Dig Dis Sci. 2004 Aug;49(7-8):1165-9.
PMID: 15387340
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| A missense mutation in KIT kinase domain 1 correlates with imatinib resistance in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. |
| Chen LL, Trent JC, Wu EF, Fuller GN, Ramdas L, Zhang W, Raymond AK, Prieto VG, Oyedeji CO, Hunt KK, Pollock RE, Feig BW, Hayes KJ, Choi H, Macapinlac HA, Hittelman W, Velasco MA, Patel S, Burgess MA, Benjamin RS, Frazier ML.
Cancer Res. 2004 Sep 1;64(17):5913-9.
PMID: 15342366
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| Polyclonal nature of diffuse proliferation of interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with familial and multiple gastrointestinal stromal tumours. |
| Chen H, Hirota S, Isozaki K, Sun H, Ohashi A, Kinoshita K, O'Brien P, Kapusta L, Dardick I, Obayashi T, Okazaki T, Shinomura Y, Matsuzawa Y, Kitamura Y.
Gut. 2002 Dec;51(6):793-6.
PMID: 12427778
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| Gastric stromal sarcoma, pulmonary chondroma, and extra-adrenal paraganglioma (Carney Triad): natural history, adrenocortical component, and possible familial occurrence. |
| Carney JA.
Mayo Clin Proc. 1999 Jun;74(6):543-52.
PMID: 10377927
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| Familial paraganglioma and gastric stromal sarcoma: a new syndrome distinct from the Carney triad. |
| Carney JA, Stratakis CA.
Am J Med Genet. 2002 Mar 1;108(2):132-9.
PMID: 11857563
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| Soft tissue sarcomas of adults: state of the translational science. |
| Borden EC, Baker LH, Bell RS, Bramwell V, Demetri GD, Eisenberg BL, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA, Ladanyi M, Meltzer P, O'Sullivan B, Parkinson DR, Pisters PW, Saxman S, Singer S, Sundaram M, van Oosterom AT, Verweij J, Waalen J, Weiss SW, Brennan MF.
Clin Cancer Res. 2003 Jun;9(6):1941-56. Review.
PMID: 12796356
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| Protein kinase C theta is highly expressed in gastrointestinal stromal tumors but not in other mesenchymal neoplasias. |
| Blay P, Astudillo A, Buesa JM, Campo E, Abad M, Garcia-Garcia J, Miquel R, Marco V, Sierra M, Losa R, Lacave A, Brana A, Balbin M, Freije JM.
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| Association of KIT exon 9 mutations with nongastric primary site and aggressive behavior: KIT mutation analysis and clinical correlates of 120 gastrointestinal stromal tumors. |
| Antonescu CR, Sommer G, Sarran L, Tschernyavsky SJ, Riedel E, Woodruff JM, Robson M, Maki R, Brennan MF, Ladanyi M, DeMatteo RP, Besmer P.
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| Acquired resistance to imatinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumor occurs through secondary gene mutation. |
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PMID: 15930355
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| NF1-associated gastrointestinal stromal tumors have unique clinical, phenotypic, and genotypic characteristics. |
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| National Comprehensive Cancer Network Soft Tissue Sarcoma Guidelines |
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