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CancerCare Booklet on GIST

The CancerCare Connect(r) booklet Treatment Update on Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors was based on a CancerCare Telephone Education Workshop featuring leading GIST experts Michael Heinrich, MD, of Oregon Health Sciences University Cancer Institute, and George Demetri, MD, of the Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

Click here to download the 20-page booklet as a pdf  to view or to print out.  (This uses free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.)

You may also want to listen to the original teleconference from January 2007: 
CancerCare Telephone Education Workshop Treatment Update on GIST
This was an important, free educational opportunity for GIST patients and their families led by leading experts Michael Heinrich, MD, and George Demetri, MD.

Access a replay of the one-hour Telephone Education Workshop at this link.




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