GIST Support UK & PAWS-GIST News!
The UK National Cancer Research Institute’s (NCRI) annual conference was held on November 3rd-5th. This year the conference was held in Glasgow (Scotland).
UK Pulls Stivarga From Cancer Drug Fund Endangering GIST Patients
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has announced plans to halt funding through the Cancer Drug Fund for regorafenib (Stivarga), thereby preventing GIST patients from having access to this life-saving medication.We at [...]
PAWS-GIST Cancer Clinic Opens in the UK
Jayne Bressington, Patient Director of the PAWS-GIST Initiative & Trustee of GIST Support UK The first national Pediatric, Adolescent, Wild-type and Syndromic GIST (PAWS GIST) clinic in the United Kingdom was held on [...]