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Thriving & Challenging Yourself While Living with GIST, Elyse, Part 1

GIST patients face many obstacles and challenges to get to a place where they’d say they were thriving. Physical challenges from surgeries, pain and side effects can severely change the lifestyle and activities they enjoyed before GIST. Elsye Walker and Stijn Belmans, faced those changes and decided they wouldn’t accept an altered version of life.

By |2021-10-28T15:24:06-04:00October 28th, 2021|Member Stories, News, Newsletter|

Thriving & Challenging Yourself While Living with GIST, Stijn, Part 2

GIST patients face many obstacles and challenges to get to a place where they’d say they were thriving. Physical challenges from surgeries, pain and side effects can severely change the lifestyle and activities they enjoyed before GIST. Elsye Walker and Stijn Belmans, faced those changes and decided they wouldn’t accept an altered version of life.

By |2021-10-28T15:47:53-04:00October 28th, 2021|Member Stories, News, Newsletter|

Rare Diagnosis Fosters a Passion for Biomarker Testing & Self-Advocacy

GISTer Bill Borwegan shares his inspiring GIST journey illustrating the importance of biomarker/ mutational testing and self-advocacy as a rare disease patient.

By |2021-06-29T11:57:41-04:00June 29th, 2021|Member Stories, News, Newsletter|
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