By Admin at 1 Dec 2015, 15:23 PM
#GivingTuesday was last week, but at Gateway, we are celebrating this season of giving throughout the entire month of December! Thanks to many donors, so far, we are almost halfway to our goal!
Gateway meticulously unearths cancer clinical trials that more precisely target and eliminate cancer while reducing the burdens of treatment, but maintaining the best possible quality of life.
It costs just $20.75 per patient per day in a Gateway-funded cancer clinical trial. And now, thanks to a generous donor, when you commit to fund one day, your tax dedictible donation funds two days — DOUBLING YOUR IMPACT in the fight against cancer!
When Lee Thompson first learned he had colorectal cancer, it was a shock, but he had a feeling that his battle with cancer was going to change his life — not end it. He was right.
For Thompson, participation in a Gateway-funded clinical trial led by Dr. Edward Lin was indeed life-changing. He responded well to the trial’s novel combination drug therapy for advanced stage colorectal cancer and is now in clinical remission!
With funding from Gateway, Dr. Lin is leading a phase II clinical trial that restores hope – and life – for individuals with advanced stage colorectal cancer.
When diagnosed as advanced metastatic disease, colorectal cancer is traditionally associated with a poor prognosis, with 5-year survival rates in the range of 5 to 8 percent.
In contrast, about 40 percent of Dr. Lin’s patients have achieved complete or near complete responses, with little or no detectable presence of cancer. Even more encouraging is that Dr Lin’s therapy has extended patients’ lives to a median survival of 92.7 months, all while avoiding the traditional and more toxic regimen of intravenous chemotherapy. Hear more about this groundbreaking trial in the video below.
There's still time to help more patients like Lee Thompson. Your support helps Gateway to expand its commitments to patients and doctors by increasing our investments in breakthrough cancer research. Thanks to our compassionate and generous supporters, Gateway can help people living with cancer today improve and prolong their lives tomorrow!
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