Portland GIST Day of Learning – Michael Heinrich, MD
GIST Treatment Update
GIST Treatment Update
In early May, the LRG Research Team held a two-day in-person meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Cleveland Clinic, where I conduct my research. Two primary aims of the meeting were to work on [...]
Accomplishments—Recent Progress: 1. Using mouse models, successfully attacked GIST with antibodies, essentially telling immune system to eat the cancer cells.
Prior to 2000, surgery was the only known effective treatment for advanced GIST.