Faces of Courage – Eve Evidon
My GIST Journey In early December 2008, I acknowledged that my stomach was not feeling normal. I felt better when I skipped meals and instinctively knew something was seriously wrong. I met with my [...]
Chile Cancer March Brings Change – Advocacy in Action!
Patients and Caregivers March! On December 4, 2018, President Sebastián Piñera, of Chile, signed the National Cancer Plan 2018 – 2028 and the National Cancer Law. LRG Global Consultant and Executive Director of Fundación [...]
Faces of Courage
For our 2018 Holiday Campaign our theme is you. The Faces of Courage. We will be featuring some stories throughout the holiday season that show the many faces of courage. We also want our [...]
Marching for the National Cancer Law in Chile
Our Global Consultant, Piga Fernández, Executive Director of Fundación GIST Chile has asked us to help support the passage of the National Cancer Law in Chile. In 2020, cancer will be the number one cause of death [...]
The Pediatric & SDH-Deficient GIST Consortium
Our Commitment to the Biden Cancer Initiative We are excited to launch an innovative initiative to strengthen and advance research for effective treatments of a rare subset of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) patients, who [...]
Biden Cancer Summit Highlights
On September 21st, 2018, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden convened a national Biden Cancer Summit, with the anchor event in Washington D.C., and more than 450 Community Summits held where people [...]
The Life Raft Group – Part of the Conversation at CTTI
The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) Steering Committee gathered in Washington, D.C. on September 25th to discuss how clinical trials fit within scientific strategies to address public health priorities, review the portfolio of initiatives, [...]
New Horizons Convenes in Vienna
On September 6th, Executive Director, Norman Scherzer and I attended the New Horizons GIST meeting in Vienna, Austria. Forty-three delegates, including GIST experts, advocacy groups, and patients/caregivers from 18 countries, gathered to share valuable [...]
4th Anniversary of Fundación GIST Chile
Saturday August 11, in Fundación GIST Chile celebrated their Fourth Anniversary and the end of their GIST Awareness Campaign: "HAGÁMOSLO POSIBLE" with two panel discussions of different health stakeholders from Chile.
Biden Cancer Community Summit – Get Involved!
The LRG is collaborating with the Biden Cancer Initiative to promote the Biden Cancer Community Summit which will be held on September 21st, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill [...]