Intestinal permeability, vitamin A absorption and serum alpha-tocopherol in gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients treated with imatinib

Abstract

This paper presents a measurement of intestinal permeability, which is a method of noninvasive laboratory assessment of gastrointestinal toxicity in patients with advanced or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors, which is administered imatinib.

Keywords

• Intestinal permeability
• vitamin A
• alpha-tocopherol
• gastrointestinal stromal tumor
• imatinib