Thymic carcinoma with overexpression of mutated KIT and the response to imatinib

N Engl J Med. 2004 Jun 17;350(25):2625-6. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200406173502523.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Benzamides
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary
  • Disease Progression
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic*
  • Humans
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / secondary
  • Middle Aged
  • Piperazines / therapeutic use*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit / genetics*
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Sequence Deletion
  • Thymoma / drug therapy
  • Thymoma / genetics*
  • Thymoma / pathology
  • Thymus Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Thymus Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / pathology

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Benzamides
  • Piperazines
  • Pyrimidines
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit