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Annals of Surgical Oncology
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology 1/2007

01-01-2007

Treatment of Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: a Marriage of Targeted Therapy and Surgery?

Author: Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 1/2007

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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. …
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van der Zwan S, DeMatteo RP. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor: 5 years later. Cancer 2005; 104:1781–8PubMedCrossRef
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Title
Treatment of Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: a Marriage of Targeted Therapy and Surgery?
Author
Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD
Publication date
01-01-2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 1/2007
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-006-9035-7

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