Examples are the published reports on the clinical, pathological and molecular characteristics of the relatively newly recognized gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

He died at the age of 46 from a gastrointestinal tumor which caused him great pain for months, and prevented him from eating.

It has also secured speedy remissions in some 60 percent of patients with a rare and otherwise deadly stomach cancer known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

Gleevec, which is used primarily for two obscure cancers - chronic myelogenous leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumor - had sales last year of $2.2 billion.

Therapy with imatinib can inhibit the non-normal cell signaling mechanisms in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Targeted therapy may be used for gastrointestinal stromal tumors that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body.

A clinical trial of targeted therapy (Gleevec) for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Abnormalities of the submucosa, such as gastrointestinal stromal tumors, usually show integrity of the mucosal surface.

Most gastrointestinal stromal tumors express KIT, which can be detected by immunohistochemistry.

One, called the c-kit receptor, is active in a cancer called gastrointestinal stromal tumor.