Successful radiotherapy for local control of progressively increasing metastasis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are known to be poorly responsive to conventional chemotherapy and historically considered resistant to radiotherapy. In the past the mainstay of GIST treatment was surgery, but the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) imatinib and sunitinib marke...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Rare Tumors |
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| Online Access: | http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/rt/article/view/3143 |