Chordoma medical therapy

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Medical Therapy

There are no drugs currently approved to treat chordoma, however chordoma has been shown to have a limited response to the PDGFR inhibitor Imatinib.

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