On September 6th, Executive Director, Norman Scherzer and I attended the New Horizons GIST meeting in Vienna, Austria. Forty-three delegates, including GIST experts, advocacy groups, and patients/caregivers from 18 countries, gathered to share valuable [...]
Saturday August 11, in Fundación GIST Chile celebrated their Fourth Anniversary and the end of their GIST Awareness Campaign: "HAGÁMOSLO POSIBLE" with two panel discussions of different health stakeholders from Chile.
The LRG is collaborating with the Biden Cancer Initiative to promote the Biden Cancer Community Summit which will be held on September 21st, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill [...]
As part of the Life Raft Group’s continuing mission to be actively involved in improving the quality of healthcare for cancer patients, I attended the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiatives (CTTI) member meeting in Rockville, Maryland [...]
On Saturday November 25, GIST Chile, together with FUCOG (Gynecological cancers) held an education session for health related students, patients and caregivers. This was the first collaborative activity in looking forward to expand our [...]
The Life Raft Group became a formal non-profit on June 10, 2002. Begun as a grass roots effort by a group of men and women with a deadly cancer in 2000, by the year [...]
Henzo Kenya is a patient support group made up of CML, GIST and recently added osteosarcoma patients. The need to support each other as patients inspired the great idea that is Henzo Kenya. Henzo [...]
Pediatrician and breast cancer survivor, Janet Sollod, gives a touching Time=Lives talk, "Approaching the Abyss." LRG staff members, Michelle Durborow and Erin Kristoff attended the Partnering for Cures 8th Annual Meeting hosted [...]
On the GIST Awareness Day, Fundación GIST Chile wants to be the voice of all people who require that Health Systems cover the treatments that we need.
"How can we Accelerate a Cure?" featuring Dr. Jonathan Trent M.D., PH.D. GDOLs are smaller group events held throughout the year in cities nationwide. These events focus on helping patients and caregivers learn more about [...]
