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Rare Cancers Australia CEO Richard Vines says Australian GIST patients were determined to help achieve a PBS listing for a new therapy to treat the disease and their persistence has paid off with QINLOCK® (ripretinib) now reimbursed. Click for more.  

What is GIST? We are passionate about making a difference for patients living with rare cancers. Here, Professor John Zalcberg provides an overview of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours. Click for more.  

Canberra mother, wife and school teacher Sarah McGoram was diagnosed with GIST 25 years ago – and given just a year to live. She has defied all odds and now gives hope to other Australians living with the disease. Click on the video above to hear her story.

Singapore breast cancer oncologist Dr Khoo Kei Siong says “changes in dietary habits, life style and reproductive patterns” are the most likely reasons breast cancer diagnoses are rising steadily in the region – with a more than three-fold increase since the late 1960s. But there is good news, with the prognosis for these women “improving significantly”.

Maxine Gladwin was 47 and a single mum to three teenage daughters when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. When her oncologist advised chemotherapy treatment, she was devastated – fearing it would impact her health, her job and her ability to provide for her family. With support from her family, a sample of Maxine’s tumour

Malaysian sarcoma specialist Dr Aminudin Rahman Bin Mohd Mydin, believes novel immunotherapy agents may one day change outcomes for difficult to treat sarcomas, with “promising responses” recorded in some of his own patients.

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate all women – particularly those who are facing a breast cancer diagnosis as well as those striving to make a difference. STA oncology liaison Suzanne Lombardo understands both perspectives. In this piece, she explains how her own experience with the disease has changed the way she now approaches her

Dr Richard Quek says he has “the best job in the world”. The Singapore based specialist in both GIST and sarcoma cancers believes it is a great privilege to care for patients during what is often a difficult cancer journey. “I enjoy the deep interactions I have with my patients and I am honored that

  LIVING WITH SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: MEET FRASER STEWART   New lung cancer therapies bring hope to people like Fraser Stewart. The 64-year-old father of two and retired diesel mechanic was diagnosed with Small Cell Lung Cancer in July 2019. Already he has endured rounds of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Now he hopes another

73 year-old Brian Flynn loves a beer, his family and the St Kilda Football Club. The former industrial cleaner was close to retirement when first diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. He had been a heavy smoker as a younger man, and was originally diagnosed after doctors investigated the source of his chest pain.