Louise Ladd (1943-2014) of Fairfield, Connecticut, who was deeply loved by her mate, Doug Taylor, and family, passed away at the age of 71 on July 11, 2014 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Ct. [...]
The Life Raft Group is excited to announce that we will be partnering with the National Institutes of Health to launch the first Pediatric GIST Virtual Tumor Board!* Due to severe funding cuts that reduced [...]
People around the world acquire life insurance policies for different reasons. It’s a common approach to protect one’s assets and cover debts should any life-changing circumstance occur, such as cancer.
In 2006, GIST patient Jim Mills was generous enough to share his GIST journey to the Life Raft Group.
In December, the Life Raft Group launched its “We Are the Cure” campaign to fund GIST research. I sat down with Norman to find out more about The LRG GIST research team and the campaign’s progress to date.
Over the last few months we have had our new Assistant Program Director come aboard, a long time LRG staff member get married and have a mini reunion, and Fundacion GIST Mexico reached 1,000 medical students.
Here is a recently published article from Alianza GIST Brazil representative Valeria Hartt about access to information, health equity and knowledge in cancer care in Brazil. Valeria described her article below: In order to add contributions [...]
updated 4/9/2020 It is very important to understand that each patient is an individual. Some have had extensive surgery and others have had less extensive surgery. There are different types of gastric surgery with [...]
Sometimes coping with remission may be difficult. You did it! While the term remission is not often heard in the GIST community, it does apply. If you’re doctor has told you that your last scan shows [...]
In this section we will cover headache coping strategies. Unfortunately, light to severe headaches may be caused as a result of using Gleevec. The good news is that there are many different things that [...]
