This is Not the End – A Survivor’s Story
A story about a cancer survivor recently appeared in the Washington Post: “This is not the end; Using immunotherapy and a genetic glitch to give cancer patients hope”. The story is about a young [...]
GIST Awareness Day (GAD) 2017 – Be a #Hero4Cancer
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 [...]
Latest Issue of the GIST and Sarcoma Journal is Now Available Online
The latest edition of the GIST and Sarcoma Journal is now available online. The GIST and Sarcoma Journal is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for scientifically valid information for physicians, allied healthcare professionals [...]
National LeioMyoSarcoma Foundation and the Life Raft Group Announce Collaboration
The Life Raft Group is pleased to announce a new collaboration to provide access to our valuable resource tool, SideEQ, to the LeioMyoSarcoma Patient-Family-Care Partner Community. Commencing on May 5, members of [...]
New Data Indicates Imatinib Boosts Long-Term Survival for Some GIST Patients
A significant finding from a newly published study in JAMA Oncology, indicates that nearly one-fourth of GIST patients with advanced disease initially treated with imatinib will survive for ten years or more. The study, [...]
The Life Raft Group Patient Registry in Review 2016
The Life Raft Group Patient Registry has over 15 years of self-reported and clinical data encompassing 35 years of patient history crossing institutional boundaries. The Patient Registry has 1703 patients from 67 countries, [...]
Collaboration Lays the Groundwork for Breakthroughs in GIST
This article originally appeared in the January 30th edition of Cure Today. Less than two decades ago, Gleevec (imatinib) drastically changed the frontline treatment for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). However, as patients [...]
Support From The Heart – Caregiver Suzy Burke
My name is Suzy Hetherton Burke, I’m 66 years old and happily retired! I grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Rosemont College in PA and moved to NYC after graduation. Charlie and I met, [...]
New Study Outlines Novel Approach to Starving Tumors in Sarcomas
A recent study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis outlines a novel approach to starving tumor cells that is based on a vulnerable point in cancer cell metabolism. The study was [...]
LRG and Columbia University Medical Center NewYork Presbyterian in the News
The recent announcement of the research collaboration between the Life Raft Group and Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork Presbyterian has garnered media attention. Recent articles have been feature in both Cure Today and GenomeWeb. [...]