Gleevec Administered Preoperatively to Reduce Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)

Summary

The aim of this study is to demonstrate that the use of Gleevec in initially non-resectable gastrointestinal stromal tumors can lead to allow complete resection in 20% of cases.

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Start

2005-08

Primary completion

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Publications

• Background Kitamura Y, Hirota S, Nishida T. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST): a model for molecule-based diagnosis and treatment of solid tumors. Cancer Sci. 2003 Apr;94(4):315-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01439.x.
• Background Judson I. Gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST): biology and treatment. Ann Oncol. 2002;13 Suppl 4:287-9. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdf672. No abstract available.
• Background Greenson JK. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors and other mesenchymal lesions of the gut. Mod Pathol. 2003 Apr;16(4):366-75. doi: 10.1097/01.MP.0000062860.60390.C7.
• Background Rosai J. GIST: an update. Int J Surg Pathol. 2003 Jul;11(3):177-86. doi: 10.1177/106689690301100304. No abstract available.
• Background Bono P, Krause A, von Mehren M, Heinrich MC, Blanke CD, Dimitrijevic S, Demetri GD, Joensuu H. Serum KIT and KIT ligand levels in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors treated with imatinib. Blood. 2004 Apr 15;103(8):2929-35. doi: 10.1182/blood-2003-10-3443. Epub 2004 Jan 8.
• Background Schirru A, Cavaliere D, Cosce U, Scarimbolo M, Griseri G, Caristo I, Bianchi M, Ingravaglieri E, Aiello D, Venturino E. [Surgical treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: personal cases]. Tumori. 2003 Jul-Aug;89(4 Suppl):141-2. Italian.
• Background Liberati G, Lucchetta MC, Petraccia L, Nocchi S, Rosentzwig R, De Matteis A, Grassi M. [Meta-analytical study of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST)]. Clin Ter. 2003 Mar-Apr;154(2):85-91. Italian.
• Background Kanda T, Ohashi M, Makino S, Kaneko K, Matsuki A, Nakagawa S, Hatakeyama K. A successful case of oral molecularly targeted therapy with imatinib for peritoneal metastasis of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Int J Clin Oncol. 2003 Jun;8(3):180-3. doi: 10.1007/s10147-003-0321-0.
• Background Miettinen M, Lasota J. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs): definition, occurrence, pathology, differential diagnosis and molecular genetics. Pol J Pathol. 2003;54(1):3-24.
• Background DeMatteo RP. The GIST of targeted cancer therapy: a tumor (gastrointestinal stromal tumor), a mutated gene (c-kit), and a molecular inhibitor (STI571). Ann Surg Oncol. 2002 Nov;9(9):831-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02557518.
• Background Tuveson DA, Willis NA, Jacks T, Griffin JD, Singer S, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA, Demetri GD. STI571 inactivation of the gastrointestinal stromal tumor c-KIT oncoprotein: biological and clinical implications. Oncogene. 2001 Aug 16;20(36):5054-8. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204704.
• Background Blanke CD, Eisenberg BL, Heinrich MC. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2001 Dec;2(6):485-91. doi: 10.1007/s11864-001-0070-0.
• Background Yan H, Marchettini P, Acherman YI, Gething SA, Brun E, Sugarbaker PH. Prognostic assessment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Am J Clin Oncol. 2003 Jun;26(3):221-8. doi: 10.1097/01.COC.0000018296.45892.CE.
• Background Noguchi T, Sato T, Takeno S, Uchida Y, Kashima K, Yokoyama S, Muller W. Biological analysis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Oncol Rep. 2002 Nov-Dec;9(6):1277-82.
• Background Kovac D, Petrovecki M, Jasic M, Dobi-Babic R, Ivanis N, Rubinic M, Krizanac S, Jonjic N, Rizzardi C, Melato M. Prognostic factors of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Anticancer Res. 2002 May-Jun;22(3):1913-7.
• Background Connolly EM, Gaffney E, Reynolds JV. Gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Br J Surg. 2003 Oct;90(10):1178-86. doi: 10.1002/bjs.4352.
• Background Crosby JA, Catton CN, Davis A, Couture J, O'Sullivan B, Kandel R, Swallow CJ. Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the small intestine: a review of 50 cases from a prospective database. Ann Surg Oncol. 2001 Jan-Feb;8(1):50-9. doi: 10.1007/s10434-001-0050-4.
• Background Joensuu H. Treatment of inoperable gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) with Imatinib (Glivec, Gleevec). Med Klin (Munich). 2002 Jan 15;97 Suppl 1:28-30.
• Background Rajput A, Kraybill WG. Clinical trials and soft tissue sarcomas. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2003 Apr;12(2):485-97. doi: 10.1016/s1055-3207(03)00002-4.
• Background Patel SR. Systemic therapy for advanced soft-tissue sarcomas. Curr Oncol Rep. 2002 Jul;4(4):299-304. doi: 10.1007/s11912-002-0005-3.
• Background Eisenberg BL. Imatinib mesylate: a molecularly targeted therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Oncology (Williston Park). 2003 Nov;17(11):1615-20; discussion 1620, 1623, 1626 passim.
• Background Rossi CR, Mocellin S, Mencarelli R, Foletto M, Pilati P, Nitti D, Lise M. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: from a surgical to a molecular approach. Int J Cancer. 2003 Nov 1;107(2):171-6. doi: 10.1002/ijc.11374.
• Background Radford IR. Imatinib. Novartis. Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2002 Mar;3(3):492-9.
• Background Frolov A, Chahwan S, Ochs M, Arnoletti JP, Pan ZZ, Favorova O, Fletcher J, von Mehren M, Eisenberg B, Godwin AK. Response markers and the molecular mechanisms of action of Gleevec in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Mol Cancer Ther. 2003 Aug;2(8):699-709.
• Background Demetri GD, von Mehren M, Blanke CD, Van den Abbeele AD, Eisenberg B, Roberts PJ, Heinrich MC, Tuveson DA, Singer S, Janicek M, Fletcher JA, Silverman SG, Silberman SL, Capdeville R, Kiese B, Peng B, Dimitrijevic S, Druker BJ, Corless C, Fletcher CD, Joensuu H. Efficacy and safety of imatinib mesylate in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors. N Engl J Med. 2002 Aug 15;347(7):472-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa020461.
• Background Bumming P, Andersson J, Meis-Kindblom JM, Klingenstierna H, Engstrom K, Stierner U, Wangberg B, Jansson S, Ahlman H, Kindblom LG, Nilsson B. Neoadjuvant, adjuvant and palliative treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) with imatinib: a centre-based study of 17 patients. Br J Cancer. 2003 Aug 4;89(3):460-4. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600965.

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