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Each cancer center may only see a small handful of patients with a given rare tumor a year, making the collection of living tissue samples—at the scale required to create laboratory cell models to drive research—nearly impossible. To be able to develop the model derivation effort in this disease, the Cancer Cell Line Factory (CCLF), plans to […]

Because angiosarcoma is an exceedingly rare cancer, it has never been the focus of large scale scientific endeavors. However, patients are now able to participate in two research projects aimed at understanding this disease in order to make discoveries which may lead to better therapeutic options. Please visit both projects below for more information:   […]

September 2, 2014 – The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative is pleased to award a $100,000 grant to David Thomas and Mandy Ballinger, two researchers working on the International Sarcoma Kindred Study (ISKS). This grant will allow the investigators to study eight especially rare forms of sarcoma within the established framework of the ISKS. These sarcoma […]

Corrie Painter was asked recently to give a talk about Angiosarcoma to the cancer biology department at Umass Medical School for a retreat that they had. She accepted the invitation, but made the talk for all of you. This is a 25 minute talk with Corrie’s voice overlaid on the slides. There are some graphic […]

Sunday, April 13, 2014 www.telegram.com view article OXFORD — Every time a sneaker slaps the ground on May 3, Corrie A. Painter moves one step closer to her goal of finding the cure for angiosarcoma. And like the runners in the fourth annual Angiosarcoma Awareness 5K Race, it can’t be fast enough. In 2010, when […]