April 2010
- LRG meets in Mexico!
- Advocates unite to help struggling patients in Macedonia
- Life Fest: Clinician of the Year winner and Tree of Life project
- Researchers collaborate at Monterrey meeting
- Latin American GIST Coalition promotes Monterrey Declaration
- Updates from GI ASCO 2010
- GIST-Switzerland Group founded for the support of GIST patients
- Over 100 attend 3rd national Italian GIST meeting
- Getting the "GIST" of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: LRG Canada's first webcast a success
- Poss meets her mark...and then some!
- Be prepared when traveling with cancer
- Happy Cancerversary to Katie Campbell!
- Young GISTers cross country lines to get together
- Brave GIST fighter and dedicated wife and mother passes
- Vietnam vet, Olympic torch-carrier and proud dad passes at age 61
- Calendar
February 2010
February 2010 clinical trials update
Updated five year adjuvant Gleevec trial: Phase II now open at 21 sites in the United States. NCT00867113
Updated MP470 trial in solid malignancies: Phase I updated to Ongoing as of 11/3/2009. NCT00894894
Added GDC-0980 trial in solid tumors: This Phase I trial of a combined PI3K & mTOR inhibitor is open at Dana-Farber Cancer Center (DFCI), Boston, Mass., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. and in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom. NCT00854152
Added GDC-0980 trial: This Phase I trial of a combined PI3K & mTOR inhibitor is recruiting at DFCI, Ville Juif, France and Manchester, United Kingdom. NCT00854126
Added PLX108-01 trial: Phase I study is recruiting in Scottsdale, Ariz. and Spokane, Wash. The drug is also called PLX3397. It is a combined fms KIT and Flt3 inhibitor NCT01004861
Added Gleevec trial: This Phase III study of dose escalation versus no dose escalation in metastatic GIST patients is sponsored by the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration NCT01004861. It is now recruiting at Sarcoma Oncology Center in Santa Monica, Calif. NCT01031628.
Added STA-9090 trial: This Phase II trial of a second generation small molecule HSP-90 inhibitor is now recruiting at Dana Farber Boston, MA NCT01039519
Added Sutent trial: This phase II trial evaluating patients with bulky GIST is now recruiting at University of Alabama. This trial administers neoadjuvant Sutent prior to prospective surgery at 14-16 weeks after trial entry. NCT01054911
Solely International
Updated Sutent trial: This phase 4 trial in China has changed to ongoing and is no longer recruiting patients. NCT00793871
View the Clinical Trials Database
Saturday 20 March, 2010
regards
neta dunn