This December, I will have been working with cancer patients for six years at the Life Raft Group. I have held their hands in hospital beds, coached them on how to talk with their doctors, stood by their side at the weddings of friends, walked with them through haunted houses and comforted their loved ones when they had nothing left.
On November 18, the Life Raft Group’s Board President Jerry Cudzil hosted this year’s Seventh Annual Life Raft Group Poker Tournament at the Midtown Loft in New York City. With over seventy-five guests and ninety-five [...]
Here is David J Brandis' in memoriam page. His legacy lives on to this day with his family and friends at Prairie Dental Group in IL.
This video is a look at where the LRG has been and where it is going.
Dutch GISTer raises $2M for GIST research. “If GIST cases in the US range from 5,000 to 10,000 diagnosed a year, and 10,000 people donated just ten dollars a month, we would have 1.2 million dollars a year for GIST research.”
Excerpts reprinted with permission from Novartis Pharmaceuticals publication. The 8th annual "International New Horizons Conference for Organizations Representing People with CML or GIST" was held this year in Vösendorf, Austria, from June 18 to 20, [...]
It is the close knit community of GIST patients, families and friends that keeps the Life Raft Group afloat. As the hope of GIST patients and families continues to float in the arms of the [...]
This informative article about cancer tattoos was written by Belinda Ehrlich From hearts and flowers to skulls and daggers, tattoos grace the bodies of millions of people across the globe whether they are rock stars or [...]
Here is a video of Dr. George Demetri speaking about GIST in 2010.
