GIST in Medical News

Novartis Oncology Launches GIST Alliance™ for Patients and Caregivers

Novartis Oncology is introducing GIST Alliance™, a unique support program with the goal to help healthcare professionals optimize outcomes in KIT-positive GIST patients. East Hanover, NJ (PRWEB) January 29, 2009 -- Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are soft ...

Novartis Oncology Launches GIST Alliance™ for Healthcare Professionals Treating Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Novartis Oncology is introducing GIST Alliance™, a unique support program with the goal to help healthcare professionals optimize outcomes in KIT-positive GIST patients. East Hanover, NJ (PRWEB) January 29, 2009 -- Though rare, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIS...

2nd ESMO symposium on soft tissue carcinomas and GIST

Experts in treating a rare group of cancers that affect tissues such as muscle, fat, nerves and the gastrointestinal wall are meeting in Milan, Italy on 13-14 May to discuss the latest information on how these diseases develop and potential new avenues for therapy. The 2nd Symposium on Sarcoma ...

GI JOE: Biography Chronicles the Life of Renowned Gastroenterologist

"GI Joe," is the biography of Dr. Joseph Kirsner, a 100-year old practicing gastroenterologist who rose from a family of Russian immigrants to become an internationally recognized physician and medical educator. An active faculty member at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Me...

Study finds survival rates from gastrointestinal tumors improving among African-Americans

...000, African Americans were more likely to develop gist and less likely to undergo surgical treatment for ...r the last decade, racial gaps in the treatment of gist appeared to have closed," said Michael Cheung, MD,...base that identified 3,795 patients diagnosed with gist and other intestinal mesenchymal tumors between199...

PLUS Diagnostics First National Laboratory to Offer Highly Specialized Gastrointestinal Tests

...ry that is significantly investing in gastrointestinal services. We have the potential to help doctors save lives by definitively diagnosing the rare gist tumor when traditional tests are not able to do so. Similarly, our beta test for H. pylori is expected to improve the accuracy of today's immunohisto...

Gene signature may predict patient response to therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors

...been the first drug that has really made a dent in gist progression up to 80 percent response yet some gist patients have little or no response to the drug," ...applying imatinib or additional therapies to their gist patients." Rink and her colleagues followed 63...

Gleevec Prevents Return of Intestinal Cancer, Study Confirms

... types of adult leukemia. The trial included more than 700 people with a gist at least 3 centimeters in size that tested positive for the protein. The pa...dies." More information The American Cancer Society has more about gist . -- Robert Preidt ...

Gleevec(R) substantially reduces risk of cancer returning in patients with life-threatening gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), The Lancet reports

... recurrence-free survival was 98% for Kit-positive gist patients taking Gleevec vs. 83% for patients takin...tzerland indicated to reduce risk of recurrence of gist after surgery; regulatory review is underway in th...t-surgery, or adjuvant, treatment of more than 700 gist patients. Researchers found that 98% of patients r...

Study shows surgery provides good long-term outcomes for patients with gastrointestinal cancers

...age follow-up time of three and a-half years. gist is a type of cancer arising from special cells in ...rgans. Each year, between 4,500 and 6,000 cases of gist are diagnosed in the United States. Laparoscopic s...ich represents the largest retrospective series of gist patients reported to date, we believe that laparos...

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals' KRX-0401 (Perifosine) Data Selected for Oral Presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology

...zation in a variety of tumor types. KRX-0401 has shown single agent partial responses in renal cell and hepatocellular carcinoma, soft tissue sarcoma, gist tumors, mesothelioma, and carcinoma of the appendix. There is also evidence of activity in hematological malignancies, especially multiple myeloma. Di...

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...ns derived from microanalytical studies Advances in soft tissue sarcoma, gist and beyond gist the role of adjuvant therapy and mutational analysis in treatment decision...

Protein predicts Gleevec resistance in gastrointestinal tumors

...x Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Preliminary studies have shown that gist cells, especially Gleevec-resistant cells, might respond well to agents in ...1R protein. IGF-1R could also serve as a marker to identify this subset of gist patients before therapy begins, when alternative treatments would be most e...

Allergy-Induced Asthma More Common in Affluent Countries

...Netherlands (58.6 percent). The areas with the lowest rates of allergic asthma were Ankara, Turkey (0 percent) and Mumbai, India (2 percent). "The gist of this study is that, in more affluent countries, asthma seems more related to allergy than to other triggers," said Dr. Alan Khadavi, a pediatric as...

Cricket Science and Medicine Congress in Barbados

...resentations from the congress: Few interesting papers that emerged during the congress were communicated to Medindia through Dr.Chauhan. This is the gist of the discussion that took place at the congress: Batting skills: * The heads of the skilled batsmen were further forward in comparison t...

Novartis Gleevec Found Effective in Treating Gastro-intestinal Tumors

...eaking, the larger the GIST, the more likely it is to be cancerous. It is estimated that approximately 5,000 to 6,000 new patients are diagnosed with gist each year in the United States. The NCI said that preliminary results from a large, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial for patients ...

‘Emotional’ Genetic Marker for Heart Diseases in Women Identifid

...zzle, scientists led by Indrani Halder of the University of Pittsburgh//, have admitted to putting at least one piece in place. Halder says the gist of her study, which attempted to connect genetics, emotions and health, is that anger and depression could be genetic. Studying around 550 women ...

A New Two-gene Test to Discern Similar Gastrointestinal Cancers

...scle cells of the gastrointestinal tract. However, gist is treatable with the targeted medication known as...enome microarrays to measure gene expression in 68 gist or LMS tumors, but then applied an analytical twis...tegy to identify gene pairs that can predict which gist patients respond to Gleevec and how other types of...

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

...in the treatment of this disease.” Judith Robinson, from the charity gist Support UK, said: “Sutent is the first drug shown to be effective in patients with advanced gist where the current standard of care has failed. For patients it can offer pr...

New Rule Results In The Complete Makeover In The Field Of Drug Advertising

...e information given on the label is not easy to locate. The FDA announced that the drug labels should contain a highlight section, which gives the gist of the information regarding drug safety. It will list safety warnings and then summarize any recent changes for that particular drug. Also informatio...

Leukemia pill shows promise against stomach cancer

...it to be as effective in treating chronic cases of gist as it has been in treating chronic myelogenous leu...eported 59 percent of patients with advanced-stage gist went into remission and up to 75 percent showed some type of improvement with limited side effects. gist accounts for about two percent of all abdominal ca...