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Precision oncology in GI-cancers: Mechanisms of action, indications and ongoing strategies to overcome primary and secondary resistance.

Targeted therapies address specific mutations in gastrointestinal cancers, refining treatment options for patients with detected alterations.

This review summarizes targeted therapies for recurrent actionable alterations across gastrointestinal cancers. It is highly relevant to precision oncology but does not contribute new comparative clinical evidence.

What the study was

Study design
Narrative review of precision-oncology mechanisms and clinical evidence
Population
Patients with gastrointestinal cancers and actionable molecular alterations
Category
Genomics/Precision Medicine
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Seminars in cancer biology

Why it surfaced

The article is a current and clinically relevant treatment map, but its evidence contribution is synthetic rather than primary.

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