Patient Perspective on Testing – Survey Highlights
Survey highlights show that most GIST patients receive mutational testing, but awareness of ctDNA testing remains low despite strong interest.
Removing Roadblocks to a Cure – GISTT Summit 2024
Roadblocks to a cure - a review of first GISTT Summit 2024 in Essen, Germany by participant LRG Data Analyst Jerry Call.
ESMO 2024 Summary
ESMO 2024 Summary
The Life Raft Group’s ASCO Educational Book Manuscript Published
The Life Raft Group is proud to share our ASCO Educational Book Manuscript - “Leveraging Patient Engagement Through Collaboration for Improved Global Health Outcomes in Sarcoma”
Summary of Phase 3 INTRIGUE Trial Published
This summary article helps explain the results of Deciphera's Phase 3 INTRIGUE trial as published in Future Medicine, authored by Marina Symcox & Robin L Jones.
GIST Awareness Day 2023 – GIST Updates
Dr. Ramesh Bulusu, Dr. John Glod & Dr. Jason Sicklick discussed GIST research updates and answered questions in this GIST Awareness Day 2023 presentation.
New Life Raft Group Paper Published
The LRG publishes, "Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Patients with Molecular Testing Exhibit Superior Survival Compared to Patients without Testing: Results from the Life Raft Group (LRG) Registry" Cancer Investigation ,Vol. 41, 2023. Issue 5 [...]
The Importance of Research – Dr. César Serrano
In this installment of Fueling GIST Research, Dr. César Serrano shares on the importance of GIST research & collaboration among institutions to build a vision of new treatments & a cure.
The Importance of Data for Research – The LRG GIST Patient Registry
In this installment of Fueling GIST Research, our Data Management & Research team shares about their management & curation of the LRG GIST Patient Registry which informs patient direction, clinical trials, and research studies.
Cultivating Partnerships – ASCO 2023 Recap
Our Spring to GIST Awareness Day Campaign Continues! Our spring fundraising campaign is all about Fueling GIST Research and we will be sharing examples of all the ways The Life Raft Group is involved [...]