GIST is a disease with a number of subtypes, and is beginning to be increasingly viewed as a “family of diseases”. One particular form of the disease is commonly known as “Pediatric GIST” - in this form the mutation occurs when the patient is either a child or young adult (but may not be discovered until later).
By Jim Hughes, LRG Clinical Trials Coordinator, and Pete Knox, LRG Special Projects Coordinator The 2011 Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) conference was held in late October this year in Chicago. If the meeting had a GIST [...]
Recently, the Life Raft Group began work on a survey project sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals designed to assess knowledge and practices among patients and physicians regarding mutational analysis and plasma level testing.
