Onkológia 4/2010

Treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumours

The article deals with possibilities of gastrointestinal stromal tumour therapy – one of the first solid tumour, whose chemical and radiation treatment was completely displaced by biologic treatment. Imatinib mesylát represents primary target treatment of progressed inoperable gastrointestinal stromal tumour. Except overview of clinical studies and treatment results the article responses to controversial questions – initial imatinib dosage, predictive factors, which cal lead to standards primary dosage escalation, question of treatment continuation after complete remission. The article also refers to others possibilities continuation in biological target therapy even after imatinib failure – use of sunitinib, nilotinib, mTOR perspective IPI-504.

Keywords: gastrointestinal stromal tumour, imatinib, nilotinib, mTOR inhibitor.