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How do you choose your next line of therapy for stage 4 GIST after progression on imatinib?
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Medical Oncology · University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
At Sylvester we have found that patients with GIST whose tumors progress in imatinib often harbor resistance mutations that may be detected by a blood test called “circulating tumor DNA”. There is growing evidence that patients with one type of mutation do much better with sunitinib while a differen...