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Ripretinib, sold under the brand name Qinlock, is a medication for the treatment of adults with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), a type of tumor that originates in the gastrointestinal tract. [3] [4] It is taken by mouth. [3] [4] Ripretinib inhibits the activity of the kinases KIT and PDGFRA, which helps keep cancer cells from ...
Avapritinib, sold under the brand name Ayvakit among others, is a medication used for the treatment of advanced systemic mastocytosis and indolent systemic mastocytosis. It is also used for the treatment of tumors due to one specific rare mutation: it is specifically intended for adults with unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) that harbor a platelet-derived growth ...
The use of chemotherapy to treat stomach cancer has no firmly established standard of care. [13] Unfortunately, stomach cancer has not been particularly sensitive to these drugs, and chemotherapy, if used, has usually served to palliatively reduce the size of the tumor, relieve symptoms of the disease, and increase survival time. [13]
A painting from 1681 depicting a person affected by nausea and vomiting. Cancer and nausea are associated in about fifty percent of people affected by cancer. [1] This may be as a result of the cancer itself, or as an effect of the treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or other medication such as opiates used for pain relief.
Symptoms of bile duct cancer include jaundice and abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. “If you look at yourself every day in the mirror, sometimes jaundice goes unnoticed because it ...
The stomach is an organ of the gastrointestinal tract that sits in the abdomen. [1]Tumors of the stomach are known as gastric tumors, and can be either benign or malignant (gastric cancer).
A chemotherapy regimen is a regimen for chemotherapy, defining the drugs to be used, their dosage, the frequency and duration of treatments, and other considerations. In modern oncology, many regimens combine several chemotherapy drugs in combination chemotherapy. The majority of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy are cytostatic, many via ...
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