GIST Virtual Tumor Board – LRG Science
PDF is available of LRG Science to print here. An oncologist in Chennai, India, 8,366 miles away from the Life Raft Group’s Wayne, New Jersey office, is running out of treatment [...]
Un Hígado vivo
Monitoreando la salud del hígado con GIST El hígado (liver), ubicado debajo de la caja toráxica derecha, es el órgano interno más grande del cuerpo y actúa como una fábrica que regula la digestión, [...]
GIST Laugh Headliner Andrea Shedler Delivers a Comedic Success!
Comedy Fundraiser Raises over $4K for GIST Research March 8th, 2019 marked the night of our first GIST Laugh comedy show held at the Town Tavern in Washington, D.C. Our host for the show, [...]
GDOL Los Angeles
GIST Day of Learning The Life Raft Group held a GIST Day of Learning (GDOL) in Los Angeles, California on February 18th, 2019. GDOLs are free, one-day programs that provide both education and support [...]
The Life Raft Group Patient Registry in Review 2018
Click on image to see Patient Registry in Review 2018 The Life Raft Group has played an instrumental role in bridging the gap between patients with valuable clinical Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) [...]
LRG Webcast: The Biology of GIST – What Every Patient Needs to Know
Wondering what in the world Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) is? Longtime friend of the Life Raft Group and LRG Science Team member, Dr. David Josephy, presented the basics of cell biology in cancer, focusing [...]
Primer simposio medicina personalizada e inmunoterapia en neoplasias solidas
De izquierda a derecha: Dr. Jorge Otero (oncólogo), Jairo Becerra, (Fundación GIST Colombia), Dr. Jonathan Trent (oncólogo, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami) Adriana Maria Garzón, (Presidente de la Fundación Simmon) and Adolf Watzke [...]
Jonathan Trent, MD, GIST Specialist, Visits Colombia for the First Symposium of Personalized Medicine and Immunotherapy
By Jairo Becerra, Vice President, Fundación GIST Colombia Left to right: Dr. Jorge Otero (Oncologist), Jairo Becerra, (Vice President Fundación GIST Colombia) Dr. Jonathan Trent (Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami), Adriana Maria Garzón, [...]
Patient of the Month for March: Cynthia Pearce
As part of our Faces of Courage Series, we are featuring a patient story on the 13th of each month. Why is the number 13 significant? 5,000 people are diagnosed with GIST each year [...]
National Integrated Cancer Control Act Approved in the Philippines
WE DID IT! National Integrated Cancer Control Act is Approved! Contributed by Rod Padua / President, Touched By Max PHILIPPINES In a country of 104 million, there are approximately 141,021 new cancer cases in [...]
