Virtual Life Fest 2020: GIST 101: The Biology of GIST
Dr. David Josephy, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Guelph,Canada, and President of GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada presented GIST 101 during Virtual Life Fest 2020.
Dr. David Josephy, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Guelph,Canada, and President of GIST Sarcoma Life Raft Group Canada presented GIST 101 during Virtual Life Fest 2020.
Oncology and surgical GIST experts shared the latest trends, insights and surgical options in GIST, and then answered questions.
Even though we weren’t together physically for our biennial Life Fest celebration, we united to spread a message of hope and positive messages while raising GIST awareness across the globe.
As part of our Virtual Life Fest celebration, we hosted a Virtual GIST Do It Walk on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The walk was held in memory of Ted Wolf, who lost his battle with GIST in 2018.
In this webinar, we discussed how to interpret your pathology report. We covered interpretation of all parts of a pathology report, beginning with understanding the final diagnosis and diagnostic comment.
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This discussion reviewed CRCI in general, and how a person who is being treated for GIST could be affected. We also talked about strategies that can help ameliorate CRCI, new research on CRCI and GIST. we also gave advice on how cancer survivors can best cope with and care for themselves during this unusual global health event.
This webinar, Sarcoma & COVID-19: Your Questions Answered, produced by the Sarcoma Alliance, originally aired on May 2, 2020 and is available here for viewing. Hear advice from GIST Specialists on this health epidemic and how it affects GIST patients.
Conversations with the Life Raft Group will debuted 4/2/2020 at 1 pm. Our first featured guest was Norman J. Scherzer, the Executive Director of the Life Raft Group. With his background at the CDC as Assistant Commissioner of Health for NYC, Norman is an excellent resource for discussing strategies for coping with COVID-19.
During this webcast presentation, Dr. Michael Heinrich will discuss these two new treatment options for advanced GIST. Dr. Heinrich will explain how each of these drugs works to target mutations for which there has previously been no targeted treatment and discuss the current coronavirus outbreak.