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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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A project funded by the EHE Foundation, the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), and the EHE Rare Cancer Foundation Australia, and led by Dr. Ryan Kanai in the Lamar Lab, was recently published in Cancers, revealing a surprising new role for AMPK in controlling the growth of EHE cells. Dr. Kanai set out to find […]
Read MoreWe are thrilled to share a new publication that includes participation of EHE advocacy organizations: “How to foster new treatment development in ultra-rare tumours? Joint EMA-EORTC multi-stakeholder workshops on ultra-rare sarcomas as a model for rare cancers.” Leaders of the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), the EHE Foundation, and EHE ITALIA Associazione Non Solo Laura […]
Read MoreIn 2022, the EHE Foundation funded the Lamar Lab’s project entitled ‘Use of Pre-clinical EHE Models to Identify Druggable Pathways to Treat EHE,’ with the goal of identifying FDA-approved drugs that can be repurposed to treat EHE. By looking for drugs that are already FDA-approved, ideally, positive pre-clinical findings could be more rapidly translated to […]
Read MoreAs partners in EHE research to find better treatments for people with EHE, the EHE Rare Cancer Charity (UK), the EHE Foundation, and EHE ITALIA Associazione Non Solo Laura ODV are excited to share the expansion of the multi-national collaborative research project “The generation and characterization of patient-derived models of EHE to assess the activity […]
Read MoreBy Seth Haddix, PhD | EHE Biobank Coordinator When patients are thinking about surgery, a new biopsy, or other procedure, their minds are filled with decisions and worry. Tissue donation isn’t usually top of mind, and for more common cancers, it is not something we think about as a priority. For an ultra-rare cancer like […]
Read MoreScientists 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 […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreIn 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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