Frank Jiang, Chairman and CEO of CStone, commented: '
GIST is a rare disease with rising incidence rates in recent years, and PDGFRA D842V-mutant
GIST patients still lack effective treatments.
Ripretinib was specifically designed to improve the treatment of patients with
GIST by inhibiting a broad spectrum of mutations in KIT and PDGFR?.
The approved drugs in the
GIST space target platelet-derived growth factor receptor, BCR-ABL fusion protein, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, KIT/c-KIT, Raf kinase, and FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3.
Their histological features are similar to
GIST, but their ultrastructural characteristics suggest that they originate from the myenteric plexus of Auerbach.
Cell proliferation of
GIST cells was assayed using the Click-iTEdU Imaging kit (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol.
Diagnosis of
GIST is confirmed by a biopsy indicating CD117 positivity.
This is the first study on the expression of SDHB in cases of
GISTs in Pakistan and we hope that expression of SDHB will become an integral part of diagnostic and treatment protocol for management of
GIST.
Miettinen and Lasota found distant metastasis in more than 50% of patients with rectal
GIST who had more than 5 mitoses per 50 HPF or with tumor size larger than 5 cm,[7] whereas other studies reported that on the contrary, tumor size could not be considered as a prognostic factor for rectal
GIST.[27]
GIST originates from the Cajal cells, a group of cells which control gut motility.
The lesion was subsequently reported to be an ulcerated malignant ileal
GIST.
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The patient was diagnosed to have
GIST metastasis and therefore was started on imatinib therapy.
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