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Meet The Professors: 2008 Volume 1, Issue 1
A case-based discussion on the management
of gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Editor:    
Neil Love, MD    
Faculty:    
Charles D Blanke, MD Brian Rubin, MD, PhD  
George D Demetri, MD Jonathan C Trent, MD, PhD  
Burton L Eisenberg, MD      

CME INFORMATION

FACULTY AFFILIATIONS AND DISCLOSURES

Cases Discussed

Cases 1 and 2 (from the practice of William N Harwin, MD)
  Primary GIST: Risk stratification
Epidemiology of GIST
Primary GIST: Clinical trials of adjuvant imatinib
Primary GIST: Clinical use of adjuvant imatinib
Case 3 (from the practice of Malek Safa, MD)
  Metastatic GIST: Treatment for liver-only metastases
Metastatic GIST: Clinical use of neoadjuvant imatinib for liver-only metastases
Case 4 (from the practice of Lowell Hart, MD)
  Metastatic GIST: Significance of exon 9 mutations
Metastatic GIST: Mechanisms of resistance to imatinib
Metastatic GIST: Sunitinib as second-line therapy
Case 8 (from the practice of Sushil Bhardwaj, MD)
  Metastatic GIST: Salvage surgery for patients with disease progression on imatinib
Metastatic GIST: Tolerability and efficacy of sunitinib
Metastatic GIST: Novel therapies
Metastatic GIST: Testing for exon 9 mutations
Case 9 (from the practice of Philip T Glynn, MD)
  Primary GIST: Duration of therapy with adjuvant imatinib

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