{"id":6,"date":"2013-10-13T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-10-13T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T20:10:18","slug":"what-is-a-gastrointestinal-stromal-tumor-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/what-is-a-gastrointestinal-stromal-tumor-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GIST &#8211; Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>GISTs may be malignant or benign<\/li>\n<li>More common in the stomach and small intestine but can be found anywhere along the GI tract.<\/li>\n<li>Begins in cells called th interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) &#8211; considered the pacemakers of the GI tract<\/li>\n<li>GIST may have a genetic component. \u00a0Neurofibromatosis type 1 is linked to GIST.<\/li>\n<li>Partial resections are usually adequate with GIST treatment with negative margins. \u00a0Formal gastrectomy is not usually necessary, nor is partial gastrectomy with nodal dissection. \u00a0Organ sparing approaches are usually appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIST &#8211; Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor GISTs may be malignant or benign More common in the stomach and small intestine but can be found anywhere along the GI tract. Begins in cells called th interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) &#8211; considered the pacemakers of the GI tract GIST may have a genetic component. \u00a0Neurofibromatosis type 1 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/what-is-a-gastrointestinal-stromal-tumor-gist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,9,1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-gastrointestinal-stromal-tumor","category-gist","category-uncategorized","tag-interstitial-cells-of-cajal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}