About 50 to 60 percent of GISTs can be removed with surgery alone, according to a 2012 review and a 2016 review, respectively. The remaining 40 to 50 percent become recurrent.

These outcomes are largely paralleled by several other active TKIs investigated mostly in single-arm phase II studies (Table 4). 74 We and others have demonstrated that all TKIs approved or studied ...

Smooth muscle tumor, gastric lymphoma, tumors with a neural/neuroendocrine origin and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) were considered as potential diagnoses given the patient's presentation ...

Surgery is the main treatment for GISTs that haven’t spread to surrounding tissues and organs. The ultimate goal of surgery is to eradicate all of cancer.

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