Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Bench to Bedside /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scoggins, Charles R. (Editor), Raut, Chandrajit P. (Editor), Mullen, John T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Surgery.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.; General Surgery.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in GIST. The book reviews new data about risk factors for the disease, profiles the new staging system for GIST, highlights o...

Table of Contents:

• Etiology/Epidemiology
• Pathology
• Molecular Genetics of GIST
• Pediatric GIST/Inheritable Disease
• Natural History
• Radiographic Imaging
• Endoscopic Evaluation
• Prognostic Factors for Localized Disease
• Management of Localized GIST: Non-Surgical Approaches-Surveillance and Endoscopic Resection
• Surgery for Localized GIST
• Minimally Invasive Surgery for GIST
• Neoadjuvant Rx and Surgical Consolidation
• Imatinib
• Management of Locally Advanced GIST
• Prognostic Factors for Advanced GIST
• Concepts of Targeted Therapy Management, Dose Escalation, Tailoring Therapy Based on Specific Mutations, Second Line Therapy
• Surgical Debulking of Metastatic GIST
• Liver Resection/Ablation of Metastatic GIST
• Palliative Care.