It’s not too late to sign up for the GIST Day of Learning (GDOL) in La Jolla/San Diego on July 15th. We are very excited to have some of the top GIST experts present at this event. Drs Sicklick and Heinrich will be discussing their latest research initiatives. Research brings us one step closer to […]
California GDOL, Dr. Jason Sicklick, Dr. Michael Heinrich, Dr. Paul Fanta, Dr. Sandip Patel, GDOL, Moores Cancer Center
On July 13th, the Life Raft Group will be celebrating the third annual GIST Awareness Day! Every year, our goal is to increase awareness about GIST worldwide. This year, we are celebrating GAD with our H.E.R.O. Campaign, #Hero4Cancer. We need your support and assistance to Help Expedite Research Outcomes. Cancer research is in trouble and needs heroes […]
GAD, GIST Awareness Day, H.E.R.O. campaign, Moores Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Hospital
The Life Raft Group became a formal non-profit on June 10, 2002. Begun as a grass roots effort by a group of men and women with a deadly cancer in 2000, by the year 2002, due to the success of the breakthrough targeted treatment STI-571 (imatanib), we were ready to take on the mission […]
15 Year celebration, Advocacy, Columbia Project, Expert Patient Training, GDOL, Gift of Time, GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank, GIST research, Patient Registry, The Life Raft Group, Virtual Tumor Board
The LRG is gearing up for our third annual GIST Awareness Day (GAD) on July 13, 2017 with our theme, Be a #Hero4Cancer. GIST Awareness Day was created in 2014 with the goal of raising awareness about GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor), a rare cancer of the gastrointestinal tract that affects approximately 5,000 new patients in the […]
#Hero4Cancer, GAD, GIST Awareness Day, H.E.R.O. campaign, Patient Powered Hero