GIST Cancer Journal Winter 2015 Issue
The Life Raft Group is pleased to announce the release of the eighth issue of The GIST Cancer Journal, the official journal of the Life Raft Group and the first academic journal devoted solely [...]
Mechanisms of Disease Persistence in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
By Tamas Ordog, LRG Research Team, Martin Zörnig and Yujiro Hayashi Dr. Tamas Ordog Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) represent a substantial proportion of human bone and soft tissue sarcomas.1 GIST are thought [...]
Being Your Own Warrior: Karen Darnell’s Personal Battle
Karen Darnell appreciates the value of life jackets. In her GIST journey, she recognizes the importance of having one constructed from the fabric of family support, GIST experts, email communities and the Life Raft [...]
Sosipatros Boikos takes helm at NIH Clinic
Dr. Sosipatros Boikos, a graduate of University of Crete in Greece, very early and while he was a first year medical student, developed an interest in cancer genetics. After graduating from medical school, he came to the National Institutes of Health as a Visiting Research Fellow to work on the genetics of Wildtype gastrointestinal stromal tumors—those GIST tumors without a KIT or PDGFRA mutation—under the supervision of Dr. Constantine Stratakis, the researcher who identified Carney-Stratakis Syndrome.
Understanding How GISTs Develop Enables Discovery of New Therapies
By Drs. Sebastian Bauer, West German Cancer Center, University of Essen, Germany and Jonathan Fletcher, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, LRG Research Team Researchers talk plainly about microGISTs, how this cancer develops and what all [...]