If further progression occurs with sunitinib, patients Selleckchem SB203580 should be considered for clinical trials of new agents or new combinations or discontinuation of anti-cancer therapy. The role of newer generation KIT and PDGFRA kinase inhibitors, e.g., nilotinib, remains to be determined in GIST patients with multiple resistants after imatinib and sunitinib therapies. Nilotinib has demonstrated Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical activity against imatinib- and sunitinib resistant GISTs (184) and displays, by an ongoing pilot study (185), substantial clinical benefit and is safe in the first-line treatment of advanced GIST. Other agents, such as dasitinib (186), sorafenib (187), and masitinib (188), target

multiple oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases that have

been implicated Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical in the development and growth of GIST. These newer agents and a wide number of others (189) are currently under clinical trials for the management of advanced and resistant GISTs and likely to change the treatment of this disease soon. Conclusions GISTs have received much attention for many reasons. The rapid expansion of molecular and clinicopathological knowledge of GIST has given this disease a promising future. The molecular targets for therapeutic interventions are not only of importance Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical for the treatment of GIST patients, but also in the development of novel drugs and new strategies in basic cancer therapy. Pathologists need to know their role as the diagnostic information they provided impacts on the choice of treatment as well as on estimation of its efficacy. Molecular testing of GISTs should be performed for treatment selection and assessment of disease progression. The cause of GIST is still unknown; Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical therefore, little has been done preventively. However, with gradual understanding the molecular mechanisms

of GIST, the etiology will be elucidated eventually. Acknowledgments Disclosure: The authors declare no confict of interest.
Primary lymphoma of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract accounts for 30-40% of lymphomas arising extranodally Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical and comprises 10-15% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) (1). It occurs in the stomach in about 60-75% of the cases, followed by the small intestines, ileum, cecum, colon and rectum (2). Mature B cell, T cell and NK/T-cell lymphomas unless are encountered, of which mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) and diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL) are the two histologic subtypes most commonly observed (1). MALT lymphoma usually arises in a background of chronic inflammation in particular, infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) (3); as such eradication of H. pylori has been documented to result in disease remission (4-6). Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease (IPSID) is a variant of MALT lymphoma that arises in the small bowel and is usually associated with Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) infection (7).