Sara Rothschild, LRG VP Program Services, met with Othon Iliopoulos, MD, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, to discuss how to understand and make progress in SDH-related diseases.
The NIH Pediatric and Wildtype GIST Clinic is a collaboration amongst researchers, specialists, patient advocates, patients and family members, with the goal of furthering the knowledge of SDH-deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) in order to develop more effective therapies.
The 17th Pediatric and Wildtype GIST Clinic was held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on September 25-27, 2019. The Clinic was a collaboration amongst researchers, specialists, patient advocates, patients, and family members, with the goal of furthering the knowledge of SDH-deficient Gastrointestinal Stromal (GIST) tumors in order to develop more effective therapies.
Dr. Jason Sicklick of Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego talks about the Phase II study of Temozolomide (TMZ) in advanced SDH-mutant/deficient GIST, a new study available to patients with SDH-deficient GIST.
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! Dear SDH-deficient GIST [...]
PDF is available of LRG Science to print here. An oncologist in Chennai, India, 8,366 miles away from the Life Raft Group’s Wayne, New Jersey office, is running out of treatment [...]
The Pediatric SDH-Deficient GIST Consortium, which was launched at the Biden Cancer Summit, consists of an impressive team of researchers, clinicians, academics, and patient advocacy groups. A member of our consortium, Dr. Joshua D. [...]
In this article, Mom Glenda Swinbourn of Australia shares the story of her son Mitchell, a 13-year old with Carney-Stratakis Dyad. It is for patients like Mitch that the Pediatric & SDH-Deficient GIST Consortium was founded.
Today is Giving Tuesday. #GIVINGTUESDAY is an opportunity to come together as a community to make an impact on the lives of GIST patients by helping to ensure their survival. It is a chance [...]
SDH is a protein that is based in the mitochondria. Its loss causes a major energy and metabolic crisis. Despite this, some types of cells can 'benefit' from the loss of SDH and continue to [...]
