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SUBMITTER: Papadakos SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9412926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Papadakos Stavros P SP Tsagkaris Christos C Papadakis Marios M Papazoglou Andreas S AS Moysidis Dimitrios V DV Zografos Constantinos G CG Theocharis Stamatios S
World journal of gastrointestinal oncology 20220801 8
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare neoplasms with an estimated incidence from 0.78 to 1-1.5 patients <i>per</i> 100000. They most commonly occur in the elderly during the eighth decade of life affecting predominantly the stomach, but also the small intestine, the omentum, mesentery and rectosigmoid. The available treatments for GIST are associated with a significant rate of recurrent disease and adverse events. Thorough understanding of GIST's pathophysiology and translation of thi ...[more]