[Of the 74 patients tested for KIT (exons 9, 11, 13, 17) and PDGFRA (exons 12 and 18), patients with KIT exon 9 mutant GIST (n = 11, 14.9%) showed numerically better clinical benefit (objective response or stable disease ≥ 24 weeks) rate (63.6% vs 46.8%, p = 0.504) and TTP (median 13.6 mo vs 6.9 mo, p = 0.631) than those with KIT exon 11 mutant GIST (n = 47, 63.5%).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE