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ReviewTranslational gastroenterology and hepatology2018

Asian consensus guidelines for gastrointestinal stromal tumor: what is the same and what is different from global guidelines.

Toshirou Nishida

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Review in Translational gastroenterology and hepatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Impact of Tumor Size and Management on Survival in Small Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2023
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  11. Robot-assisted resection of GIST in the proximal jejunum.Journal of surgical case reports · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toshirou NishidaDepartment of Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuoku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
National Cancer Center Hospital East · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are some disparities between the clinical practice and profiles of cancer in Asia and those in Europe & North America. In Asia, surgical oncologists still have a major role in the multidisciplinary therapy of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), whereas medical oncologists hold this status in the West. Although the incidence of clinical GIST is considered similar between the two areas, small gastric GISTs are more frequently treated by surgery in East Asia compared with Europe & North America. The diagnosis and treatment of small submucosal tumors (SMTs), including GIST, is important in Asian clinical practice guidelines for GIST. Most items of Asian and Western GIST guidelines are very similar. There are slight differences between the two guidelines in the degree of recommendation, which may come from disparities of clinical practice and available medicines. Importantly, most clinical evidence in the GIST guidelines has been established by clinical trials conducted in Western countries, and the number of clinical trials is still limited in Asia, suggesting that Asian GIST patients may have limited access to investigational drugs after standard therapy. Finally, both Asian and Western GIST guidelines are well-harmonized in some parts, and their contents may reflect the medical circumstances of each region.

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evidence-basedGastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)guidelinessubmucosal tumor (SMT)

Identifiers

PMID29552662
PMCPMC5847913
OpenAlexW2785727544

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