Young GISTers cross country lines to get together
My name is Stacey McAully and for those of you who don't know, I was the first pediatric diagnosis of GISTs in Scotland. I have had 2 serious surgeries and was on Gleevec for [...]
Be prepared when traveling with cancer
Recently, an article by Diane Stresing was published on the popular coping website, CarePages.com, about traveling with cancer. With Life Fest coming up in a few months, we thought it worthwhile to share some of the tips [...]
LRG Canada’s first webcast a success
Getting the "GIST" of gastrointestinal stromal tumors Written by David Josephy The Life Raft Group has been pioneering the development of GIST online resources since its inception. Life Raft Group Canada relies heavily on the internet to overcome [...]
Over 100 attend 3rd national Italian GIST meeting
Written by Gabriella Tedone The Third National Italian Meeting of A.I.G. (Associazione Italiana GIST) was held at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), in Milan on Saturday, February 27, 2010. For the 99 patients and [...]
Researchers collaborate at Monterrey meeting
The LRG research team continues to investigate a number of key areas. These include research into ways to overcome drug resistance, improve initial response to treatment, clinical trial support, high throughput screening and establishing the [...]
Life Fest: Clinician of the Year Winner and Tree of Life Project
By Belinda Ehrlich, LRG Program Associate & Erin Kristoff, Newsletter Editor And the winner is... After careful consideration, the Life Raft Group has chosen the recipient of the GIST Clinician of the Year award – Dr. [...]
LRG meets in Mexico!
Researchers and staff from the Life Raft Group and representatives from Mexico’s science and medical community came together to commit to their mission of improving the survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients in Latin [...]
Varmus sworn in as NCI’s 14th director
Nobel Prize winner Harold E. Varmus, M.D., took the oath of office to become the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) 14th director in July 2010. NCI is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that comprise the [...]
Three girls are going to skydive for GIST!
Written by Stacey McAully My name is Stacey and most of you will have seen us in the April edition of the newsletter. I have always known I have wanted to do something to raise money [...]
Norman & Anita meet with Dutch GISTers in Amsterdam
The following excerpt has been reprinted from an article in the Contactgroep GIST newsletter,“Van GISTeren naar morgen” with permission. Norman Scherzer, the American who founded the Life Raft Group ten years ago, stayed with his [...]