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 […]
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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
Rare Disease Day is celebrated on the last day of February each year. The day is celebrated in order to bring attention to the general public and decision makers about rare diseases and how they affect patients’ lives. They day was first introduced by Eurordis and its Council of National Alliances in 2008. The theme […]
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