A proposed risk assessment score for gastrointestinal stromal tumors based on evaluation of 19,030 cases from the National Cancer Database.
Vincent Quoc-Huy TrinhNooshin Karamzadeh DashtiJustin Merrill Marken CatesPublished in: Journal of gastroenterology (2021)
Reexamination of prognostic factors for GIST demonstrated that current threshold values for tumor size and mitotic rate are suboptimal. A risk stratification score based on revised categorization of these factors outperformed currently used risk assessment algorithms.