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New Published Research from the Gastric Cancer Registry Team

Mar 22 2021

Our Gastric Cancer Registry project at Stanford is leading to important research and new discoveries. A recently published study used joint single...

Foundation Funds Major Expansion of Gastric Cancer Registry

Jan 26 2021

The Gastric Cancer Foundation has committed $257,856 to fund a transformative expansion of the Gastric Cancer Registry in 2021. The funding will...

Gastric Cancer Registry Prepares to Launch Innovative Data Portal

Dec 21 2020

The Gastric Cancer Registry is the first comprehensive repository of clinical and genomic data pertaining to stomach cancer. Its chief aims are...

Foundation-Funded Lab at MD Anderson Advances Discoveries in Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

Nov 15 2020

About 45% of gastric cancer patients experience peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), the spread of the cancer to the abdominal lining—a development that’s associated...

New Grant Awarded to USC for Study of Epigenetic Targets in Gastric Cancer

Nov 07 2020

Some gastric tumors have genetic abnormalities that can be directly targeted with drugs, such as HER2 mutations. But cancer is a complex...

New Foundation Grant to Dana-Farber for Study of “Chromosomal Instability” in Gastric Cancer

Oct 30 2020

Gastric tumors with a genetic abnormality called microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) can be treated with immune-targeted drugs, but there’s a much more common...