We are really excited to announce that GIST Cancer UK has 10 charity places in the 2021 VIRTUAL Virgin Money London Marathon! If you or your family and friends would like to raise funds for GIST Cancer UK & PAWS-GIST as a runner on Sunday 3rd October 2021 please email fundraising@gistcancer.org.uk to apply for a […]

The results from the London Marathon official public ballot will be announced this Monday 8th February 2021. If you or anyone in your family / network of friends are successful in gaining a ballot place and would like to raise money for GIST Cancer UK & PAWS-GIST, please contact the Fundraising team on fundraising@gistcancer.org.uk We […]

The 4th of February was World Cancer Day and as we progress through the year there will be a series of other cancer awareness days, covering each type and also those classified as rare. GIST cancer awareness day is in July which is Sarcoma awareness month. We are all very aware of rare GIST Cancer […]

Happy New Year! We have established a new partnership with RareCan which has been founded by our good friend Professor Andy Hall who was instrumental in helping us to establish the National GIST Tissue Bank for GIST research. You will be aware that GCUK are relentless in our focus to improve treatments and outcomes for […]

A huge thank you to everyone who supported GIST Cancer UK during this year’s Big Give #ChristmasChallenge including our pledgers and champions The Hospital Saturday Fund. Thanks to your generosity we have raised an amazing £6,780.00. Everything you have donated will be used to improve GIST patients’ quality of life and invested in research to […]

The Big Give Christmas Challenge is now live! Donate to GIST Cancer UK via our project page https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a051r00001emyYyAAI between 12 noon today (December 1st) and 8th December and your donation will be matched, allowing you to make an even greater impact. One donation, twice the impact!  The matched funding is available on a ‘first come, […]

Today our Vice Chair Jayne Bressington participated in the first of a series of RareCan discussions. In this video Jayne and Debbie Binner, Non-executive director of RareCan, discuss their personal experiences of PAWS-GIST and Ewing’s Sarcoma with Professor Andy Hall a Founder and Director of RareCan. Please watch & share this video By joining RareCan, […]

  What happens during the BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge? Donations made via GIST Cancer UK’s project page: between 12 noon on December 1st and 8th will be matched. This means that your donation will be doubled and have twice the impact! All you need to do is:  At 12 noon on 1st December make your donation […]

Dear friends of GIST Cancer UK We have some very sad news to report. Our dear friend and colleague David Falconer has sadly passed away, having succumbed to Lung Cancer. David spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in Oncology. He was specifically involved with sunitinib which is used as a treatment for GIST […]

We are very excited to have been selected to participate in the “Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020”, which is the UK’s largest matched funding campaign. Thank you “The Hospital Saturday Fund” for being our champion! Our fundraising project Supporting GIST Cancer patients through the Covid19 pandemic is aiming  to make up the shortfall in our […]