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ReviewAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting2022

The GIST of Advances in Treatment of Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor.

Inga-Marie Schaefer, Ronald P DeMatteo, César Serrano

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Review in American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Clinical impact of primary and secondary KIT mutations on the efficacy of molecular-targeted therapies in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Inga-Marie SchaeferDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Ronald P DeMatteoDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
César SerranoSarcoma Translational Research Program, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

Targeting cell cycle dysregulation in GISTK08CA241085 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SCHAEFER, INGA-MARIE · 2019 to 2023
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA241085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common malignant neoplasm of mesenchymal origin and a compelling clinical and biologic model for the rational development of molecularly targeted agents. This is because the majority of GISTs are driven by gain-of-function mutations in KIT or PDGFRA receptor tyrosine kinases. Specific GIST mutations circumscribe well-defined molecular subgroups that must be determined during the diagnostic work-up to guide clinical management, including therapeutic decisions. Surgery is the cornerstone treatment in localized disease and can also be clinically relevant in the metastatic setting. The correct combination and sequence of targeted agents and surgical procedures improves outcomes for patients with GIST and should be discussed individually within multidisciplinary expert teams. All currently approved agents for the treatment of GIST are based on orally available tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting KIT and PDGFRA oncogenic activation. Although first-line imatinib achieves remarkable prolonged disease control, the benefit of subsequent lines of treatment is more modest. Novel therapeutic strategies focus on overcoming the heterogeneity of KIT or PDGFRA secondary mutations and providing more potent inhibition of specific challenging mutations. This article reviews the current understanding and treatment of GIST, with an emphasis on recent advances.

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Antineoplastic AgentsGastrointestinal NeoplasmsGastrointestinal Stromal TumorsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansImatinib MesylateMutationProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kitAntineoplastic AgentsImatinib MesylateProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit

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PMID35522913
PMCPMC9113521

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