Open AccessClinical practice and outcomes in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor: Experience from an Indian tertiary care center
Author(s) -
Subhadeep Bose,
Anant Ramaswamy,
Anil Kumar Sahu,
Omshree Shetty,
Saurabh Zanwar,
Jimmy Mirani,
Chaitali Nashikkar,
Vikas Ostwal
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
south asian journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-4306
pISSN - 2278-330X
DOI - 10.4103/sajc.sajc_323_16
Subject(s) - medicine , gist , sunitinib , imatinib , oncology , pdgfra , stromal tumor , gastroenterology , pazopanib , cancer , stromal cell , myeloid leukemia
Management of advanced Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) has been revolutionized with the use of Imatinib guided by mutation analysis. Data from India remains scarce.