[GISTs can be successfully treated with imatinib mesylate, a selective small-molecule protein kinase inhibitor that was first clinically approved to target the oncogenic BCR-ABL fusion protein kinase in chronic myelogenous leukemia, but which also potently inhibits KIT and PDGFR family members.]. 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