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With the generosity, heart, and determination of the EHE community and the EHE Foundation Board of Directors, we raised more than $155,000 — and counting — for EHE Research this Giving Tuesday! In a world with so many urgent needs, we are profoundly grateful for how this community continues to show up for one another to advance our mission of finding treatments and a cure for EHE. Thank you!
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Giving Tuesday 2023 Raises over $160k for EHE Research
Thank you! Together, we raised more than $160,000 to fund critically needed research into epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE). Rare cancers, like EHE, lack sufficient governmental and pharmaceutical funding sources available for more common cancers. Your donations support our work to level the playing field. A special thanks to: Thank you for joining us in our fight […]
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2023 EHE Foundation Research Grant Awards Announcement
The EHE Foundation awards research grants to advance our mission to find treatments and a cure for EHE. With the guidance of our Research Committee, Advisory Board, and expert reviewers, we are pleased to announce the research grants awarded in 2023: Ajaybabu Pobbati, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute Harnessing FDA-approved drugs to gain mechanistic […]
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The Pledge: Edition 34, Q3 – July-September, 2023
Publication of The Pledge quarterly newsletter is led by the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK). EHE patient advocacy groups from around the globe. provide content including research news, patient and fundraising stories, and much more! Click here to view the most recent edition of our online EHE newsletter, The Pledge.
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Welcome New Board Member John McFadden, Ph.D., CRNA, APRN
The EHE Foundation was founded by patients, for patients. Continuing that tradition, we aredelighted to announce that EHE patient John McFadden, Ph.D., CRNA, APRN, has joined ourBoard of Directors. With more than 35 years of experience in health care, Dr. McFadden has held positions as anurse executive, hospital and university program accreditation surveyor, faculty member, […]
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Giving Tuesday is November 28th
During the busy holiday season, The EHE Foundation asks that you join us in celebrating Giving Tuesday, not just on Tuesday, November 28th, but throughout the month of November. All proceeds will support our vision: a world where EHE is easily diagnosed and treatable. Retailers are bombarding us with Black Friday and Cyber Monday advertisements. Let […]
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Spotlight on Young Investigator Nicholas Scalora, Advancing the Science Behind EHE
The EHE Foundation is proud to have awarded the 2023 Fellowship Travel Grant to Nicholas (Nick) Scalora, a 5th year graduate research assistant in the Tanas Laboratory, at the University of Iowa, where the team studies the role of the Hippo pathway in sarcomas. Dr. Munir Tanas, expert pathologist and researcher, was first author of […]
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Translating molecular mechanisms of EHE to improve patient outcomes
Scientists know that most EHE tumors are caused by specific genetic changes called gene fusions. In most people with EHE, two genes, WWTR1 and CAMTA1, are abnormally fused. In a smaller number of cases, a different fusion involving YAP1 and TFE3 is present. In a recent review published in Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, the authors […]
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EHE in Canada: what a national study tells us
A recent study published in the European Journal of Cancer represents the largest collection of data from people with EHE in Canada. Researchers found that EHE can behave very differently from person to person—about one-third of patients were diagnosed by chance and did not need immediate treatment, while others had more aggressive disease. About half […]
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Pulmonary EHE: a case report and review of literature
In a recent issue of AME Case Reports, a team led by Dr. Clifford Atuiri describes a case of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) and places it within the broader understanding of the disease. The authors note that EHE in the lungs can be difficult to diagnose because symptoms and imaging often resemble more common lung […]
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