This organization is dedicated to the support of GIST patients, families, and friends and the ongoing research required to treat and cure Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
On this site you will find people from around the world who are dealing with GIST, both the experienced and inexperienced, patients and caregivers, nonprofessionals and professionals. Here you will find support, contacts and information for managing life with GIST Cancer.
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New resources and updates
JUST RELEASED!!!!
Pfizer has posted a press release announcing that the FDA has approved Sutent for GIST and for renal cell cancer.
That means that doctors can now begin prescribing it and that patients in the U.S. will be able to access it outside of a clinical trial.
Pfizer has a patient assistant program for Sutent. The program is for people who do not have insurance or who may not have enough insurance to cover Sutent.
At the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium held in late January, 2006, Dr. Charles Blanke presented a poster detailing 4-year follow-up results of the patients in the first randomized Phase II clinical trial of Gleevec for treatment of GIST, known as the B2222 trial.
We are pleased to announce six new documents in a section titled "About GIST". These include: What is GIST, Diagnosis and Pathology, Special GISTs (familial, NF1, pediatric, Carney triad), Prognosis, References, and Glossary.
Help Novartis Oncology collect information from doctors on the diagnosis and management of GIST via doctor participation in a GIST Registry.
Facing grief and loss
GSI Forums/Message Board
Phone Pals is now live!
Need to talk with a real person? Make contact with other patients and caregivers. Call our Phone Pals number at 215-340-9374 and leave a message. Someone from our volunteer network will call you!
THE GIST PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY PAGE ( a.k.a. PSI-ONC pronounced Sigh-Onk) by Melvin S. Heller, M.D.
Please check out the extensive additions under News and Resources!
