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July is Sarcoma Awareness Month – Support Our Mission With a Monthly Donation
As we spread sarcoma awareness this month, we ask you to consider a monthly donation. A recurring donation creates a BIG impact in a rare sarcoma, like EHE. We’ve set a goal of 10 new monthly donors! Will you join our Circle of Friends? It’s very affordable and connects you to our small, but mighty […]
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TEAD Talk – The Pursuit of a Treatment and Cure for EHE
Thanks to David Casimir, PhD, JD, for his informative patient-level presentation on June 17, 2023, that addressed the questions: What is the Hippo pathway and TEAD? How do they relate to EHE? How are they being used to develop EHE treatments? How do these treatments move from the laboratory, through clinical trials, to patient care? […]
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2023 Fun Run Event Breaks Record
Thank you to every sponsor, participant, and donor, for helping us make the 2023 EHE Fun Run and Walk the LARGEST in our history with 1,156 registrations and more than 60 teams! Registration for the event went through the month of April and supporters participated in the virtual event across the country mostly in May […]
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The Pledge: Edition 32, Q1 – January-March, 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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2023 EHE Research Grants – Funding Impactful Projects That Support Our Mission
The EHE Foundation seeks to support and fund the most promising basic, translational, and clinical research that will expand our current understanding of EHE and accelerate the development of treatments, and a cure for EHE. Each year, the Foundation initiates a new Research Grants Cycle, inviting researchers and clinician scientists from around the world to […]
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Highlights From ASCO 2023
Our Director of Research, Denise Robinson, attended the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Annual Meeting and the Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration (SARC) Semi-annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, in early June. Over 30,000 people joined together in person to conquer cancer! ASCO is the world’s leading organization for oncology, bringing together clinicians, […]
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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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