On Friday, May 22, members of the Life Raft Group traveled to Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health to share the technology, capabilities and data of the LRG Patient Registry. The presentation was [...]
While many GIST patients are able to continue working throughout their treatment, there may be a time when cancer and its associated complications can progress to the point that work becomes difficult. Social Security [...]
With precision medicine an accepted paradigm in cancer treatment, finding the right targeted drug treatment for each patient can prove challenging. MIT chemical engineers have designed an implantable device, which is about the size [...]
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 [...]
This is it folks! Today, April 13, we are officially launching our new awareness campaign #ShowUsYourRare! Harnessing the power of social media, we are asking the world to stand up for people [...]
