February 2010

• 2009 Executive Director’s report
• Dancing With NED
• From bench to bedside and back again
• More Life Fest 2010 updates!
• It’s time to consider mutational status for resistant GIST patients: KIT exons 9 & 11
• February 2010 clinical trials update
• Tasigna shows greater efficacy over Gleevec for CML: Will GIST be next?
• Magic Cancer Bullet: Behind the scenes
• Synta opens phase II trial STA-9090 in GIST
• Insomnia is common, likely under-diagnosed among people with cancer undergoing chemo
• NIH Pediatric & Wildtype clinic continues with success
• Happy Cancer-versary to Josalin Dunn!
• Happy Cancer-versary to Carolina Ponce-Williams!
• Patients with rare cancer get second chance to fight back
• Southern California GISTers meet!
• Chicago-area GISTers meet!
• Beloved wife, mother, grandmother & friend enjoyed all of life’s blessings
• Wife, mother and friend to all passes away after courageous battle with GIST
• Global GIST newtowrk adds new GIST represenative
• Show the LRG some love!
• Calendar