Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
Tag: gastrointestinal stromal tumor
How to retarget cancers that have evaded targeted therapy
Targeted therapy drugs transformed the outlook for people with the rare cancers known as gastrointestinal stromal tumors, enabling some to survive a decade or longer. A fraction of GIST patients,...
Improving survival for patients with GIST
Average life expectancy had been no better than 18 months for people diagnosed with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors, or GISTs. The outlook changed dramatically in 2001 with the arrival...