In Santiago, Chile, on April 22, 2015, The Chilean Health Ministry (MINSAL) organized a seminar to discuss regional policies for cancer prevention and control. Representatives of WHO, OPS, RINC, and UNASUR, were invited along [...]
The 5th issue of the GIST Cancer Journal, official journal of the LRG and the first academic journal devoted solely to GIST is now available
As personalized medicine has become an accepted paradigm, it may be time for oncologists to examine personalized dose levels.In a recent article from Cancer World, the author explores the value of therapeutic drug monitoring for [...]
The side effects of traditional chemotherapy treatments are often apparent, with images of bald patients with pain-etched faces captured in photographs. For targeted therapies such as those for GIST patients and other cancers that [...]
The Life Raft Group is pleased to announce its recent membership in One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC). Established in 2000, OVAC has grown to become the Capitol’s leading cancer coalition by unifying US cancer [...]
Blueprint Medicines presented new preclinical data on its drug candidate, BLU-285, and its potential value in treatment-resistant GIST and on novel cancer drug targets at the AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Annual Meeting [...]
Last year’s inaugural GIST Awareness Day was a huge success, and we know with your help 2015 will be even bigger and better! This year, we’re celebrating GIST Awareness Day by creating a photo mosaic [...]
Jeff Davis - West Coast Florida Back in 1969 the New York Mets, a struggling team at the time, pulled off one of the most amazing comebacks in baseball. You could say [...]
As one of the most common side-effects of Gleevec, Sutent and Stivarga, fatigue is a condition that many GIST survivors are intimately acquainted with. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network defines cancer-related fatigue as “a [...]
As the Life Raft Group continues to grow globally, we will highlight our international friends in each newsletter issue. In this interview with Ferdinand Mwangura, Chairman of Henzo Kenya, we discover how the seeds [...]
