Nearly All Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) Have Been Found to Carry

question 9

True/False

Nearly all Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) have been found to carry mutant forms of an important tyrosine kinase receptor gene called c-KIT.

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