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Jan 2018 PloS one

EPIGIST: An observational real-life study on patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors receiving imatinib.

Authors

Bouché O, Cesne AL, Rios M, Chaigneau L, Italiano A, Duffaud F, Lecomte T, Arsène D, Manfredi S, Aparicio T, Remy S, Isambert N, Collard O, Priou F, Bertucci F, Sambuc R, Bisot-Locard S, Bourges O, Chabaud S, Blay JY

Summary

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare, but represent the most common mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract. EPIdemiology GIST, is an observational multicenter longitudinal follow-up cohort study reporting the prescribing patterns of imatinib in patients with GIST and the impact of the treatment in a real-world (standard clinical) setting.

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