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Successful Perioperative and Surgical Treatment of a Rare Case of Extra-Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Arising in the Prostate Gland.

Patrick Schöffski, Raf Sciot, Maria Debiec-Rychter, Johan Van Ongeval, André D'Hoore, Luc Merckx, Steven Joniau

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7 authors.

Patrick SchöffskiDepartment of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium.
Raf SciotDepartment of Pathology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium.
Maria Debiec-RychterDepartment of Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium.
Johan Van OngevalDepartment of Gastroenterology, General Hospital Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium.
André D'HooreDepartment of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium.
Luc MerckxDepartment of Urology, General Hospital Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium.
Steven JoniauDepartment of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a very uncommon case of a primary, non-metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) arising in the prostate gland in a 60-year-old patient. The morphology and immunohistochemical profile of the disease resembled GIST of gastrointestinal origin, and the molecular driver of this malignancy was a double mutation in exons 11 and 13 of the KIT gene. The tumor was proliferating slowly, did respond to neoadjuvant therapy with the KIT-inhibiting agent imatinib and was cured by radical, retro-pubic prostatectomy followed by adjuvant imatinib treatment. We postulate that primary GIST tumors of the prostate can arise from prostatic interstitial cells, which are the pacemakers of smooth muscle contractility in the gland, and possibly share a common precursor with typical GIST and the interstitial cells of Cajal in the gastrointestinal tract.

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Gastrointestinal stromal tumorGISTInterstitial cells of CajalInterstitial prostatic cellsKIT mutationProstate gland

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PMID39263341
PMCPMC11387946

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