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SUBMITTER: Zeichner SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5506269 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Zeichner Simon B SB Goldstein Daniel A DA Kohn Christine C Flowers Christopher R CR
Journal of gastrointestinal oncology 20170601 3
Over the past 20 years, with the incorporation of genetic sequencing and improved understanding regarding the mechanisms of cancer growth/metastasis, novel targets and their associated treatments have emerged in oncology and are now regularly incorporated into the clinical care of patients in the US. Novel, more tumor-specific, non-chemotherapy agents, including agents that are commonly used in the treatment of patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (GA) and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), ...[more]