Research

7th Annual GIST Group Switzerland Prize Awarded to Professor Abbas Agaimy

Left to Right: Martin Wettstein, Dr. Michael Montemurro, Helga Meier Schnorf, Prof. Abbas Agaimy, Prof. Richard Herrmann GIST Group Switzerland, the support group for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), has awarded [...]

By |2018-10-30T09:26:20-04:00December 19th, 2016|Global, News, Research|

CTOS Provides International Networking Opportunities

Executive Director Norman Scherzer traveled to Lisbon, Portugal in November to attend the 21st annual meeting of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS). CTOS is an annual conference which has grown since its inception [...]

By |2019-09-20T15:29:40-04:00November 28th, 2016|Events, Newsletter, Research|

LOXO-101 receives breakthrough therapy designation from FDA for solid tumors with NTRK gene fusions

Loxo Oncology  announced in a press release that the FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to LOXO-101 for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic solid tumors with neurotrophic tyrosine receptor kinase gene fusions. This [...]

By |2020-02-21T14:56:38-05:00July 21st, 2016|News, Research|

Quadruple-Negative GIST Tumors May Be More Likely To Harbor NF1 Mutations As Well

In a pre-print electronic publication of the July 7, 2016 edition of Clinical Cancer Research, a team of Italian researchers examined the link between “Quadruple-Negative” GISTs (those that do not exhibit KIT, PDGFRA, or BRAF [...]

By |2018-10-30T09:41:06-04:00July 19th, 2016|Clinical Trials, News, Research|

Ignyta Announces Results for Potential New Cancer Treatment

Dr. Alexander Drilon of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center recently reported at AACR on a potential new cancer treatment, Entrectinib, a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor developed to target tumors carrying NTRK1, NTRK2, NTRK3, [...]

By |2020-02-21T15:04:32-05:00July 12th, 2016|Clinical Trials, News, Research|

How to be a GIST Hero: Donating Tissue for GIST Research

For  patients who have recently been diagnosed with cancer, donating a tissue sample is probably the last thing on their minds. But it’s an important consideration. Researchers often rely on donated tissue to advance [...]

By |2018-10-30T09:49:49-04:00June 10th, 2016|Newsletter, Research, Tissue Bank|

LOXO-101 Holds Promise as Potential Treatment Targeting Solid Tumors

A recent announcement from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center described a study that shows promise for a potential treatment (LOXO-101) that targets solid tumors with NTRK gene fusions. The investigational agent, [...]

By |2018-10-30T09:50:34-04:00May 19th, 2016|News, Research|
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