LRG Humanitarian Awards at Life Fest 2008
LRG Board Member, Ray Montague presents the LRG Humanitarian of the Year Award to Dr. Lee Helman of the NIH for his work in forming the Pediatric GIST clinic.
LRG Board Member, Ray Montague presents the LRG Humanitarian of the Year Award to Dr. Lee Helman of the NIH for his work in forming the Pediatric GIST clinic.
Kendra Tobes, widow of board member Allan Tobes speaks about her husband.
Kendra Tobes, wife of the late Allan Tobes, presents Allan Tobes Volunteer Awards to Steve Rigg and Dick Kinzig at Life Fest 2008 at Friday's Reception Dinner on September 12 in Chicago.
By August the discomfort was spreading and became more intense, ranging from my lower right groin to my left shoulder. By late August, I drove to the ER at the VA’s Gainesville Medical Center one night in excruciating pain but an EKG, blood work and chest X-ray
Dick Kinzig welcomes everyone to Life Fest 2008 at Friday's Reception Dinner on September 12 in Chicago.
How long must dying patients wait for justice? In a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal, Gregory Conko, Director of Food Safety Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an advocacy group based in Washington DC, [...]
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York have found a rare mutation in some GIST tumors. In a series of 61 patients with wild-type GIST, they found that three of them (5%) had mutations in a gene called BRAF. This same mutation, a “V600E” mutation in exon 15 of the BRAF gene, occurs frequently in melanoma. They also found the same mutation in one of 28 GIST patients that were resistant to Gleevec.
Here is a video for the Livestrong.com Guru Challenge - "Dare To" Contest. Watch the video and help fight GIST.
Gleevec receives FDA priority review as first therapy to reduce recurrence of GI stromal tumors after surgery East Hanover, August 27, 2008 — Novartis announced today that Gleevec® (imatinib mesylate) tablets has been granted priority [...]
Jodi Merry wrote this editorial about GIST Cancer titled When is Enough Enough?