GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank

The Life Raft Group Announces Collaboration with OHSU on GIST Tissue Bank

In this issue of LRG Science, we release breaking news of our newest collaboration - with OHSU on the GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank. The LRG has a unique patient registry with over 2,000 members and this collaboration is an important example of the vital role patient advocacy groups and academic institutions play in bridging the gap between researchers and motivated patient populations who want to share their clinical histories and tissue to create new treatments and better outcomes. 

By |2020-09-28T15:37:49-04:00September 28th, 2020|LRG Science, News, Tissue Bank|

Collaboration Lays the Groundwork for Breakthroughs in GIST

This article originally appeared in the January 30th edition of Cure Today. Less than two decades ago, Gleevec (imatinib) drastically changed the frontline treatment for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). However, as patients [...]

By |2018-10-30T09:20:36-04:00February 24th, 2017|News, Newsletter, 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|

GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank: A researcher’s perspective

The Life Raft Group GIST Collaborative Tissue Bank consists of a collection of tumor specimens from a large number of patients, stored at Stanford University. The advantages of having a tissue bank for a [...]

By |2020-02-05T08:36:22-05:00February 10th, 2016|News, Newsletter, Research, Tissue Bank|

LRG patient registry: powerful tool for patients, physicians and researchers

The time it takes between the appearance of first symptoms of a rare disease and when the correct diagnosis is given, is often years if not decades instead of days or weeks like it is [...]

By |2019-09-20T12:41:08-04:00October 24th, 2014|News, Patient Registry, Research, Tissue Bank|
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