RESEARCH → TCF-001 TRACK Our fully remote, decentralized precision medicine clinical trial has enrolled 157 patients with 40 rare cancers from 41 states,...
Research & Innovation
A reflection of purpose after 13 years: Remembering our founder
Written by Kristen Palma, TargetCancer Foundation President Each year, as I sit down to write this note, I wonder what more I can say. It has been 13...
Promising New Cholangiocarcinoma Treatment Findings
An exciting paper was recently published in Cancer Discovery highlighting the promise of the recently FDA approved FGFR inhibitor drugs for an even broader...
Importance of Local Physicians at the TRACK Virtual Molecular Tumor Board
The rapid progress made over the last decade in bringing comprehensive genomic profiling to rare cancer patients has created the opportunity to significantly...
TRACK (Target Rare Cancer Knowledge) Virtual Molecular Tumor Board
The TRACK Study incorporates many features that make it unique and especially significant for rare cancer patients. One of these features is the Virtual...
Rare Cancer Research During COVID-19
By TCF research grant recipients Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and Adam Bass, MD of Dana-Farber Cancer...
An Insider’s Perspective
Dr. Monika Laszkowska, a gastroenterology fellow, next to the poster she presented at the 2019 TargetCancer Foundation Think Tank on Advancing...
2019 Cholangiocarcinoma Research Grant Announcement
TargetCancer Foundation is proud to announce a new two-year, $240,000 grant to the Bardeesy Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center brings our...
Building the tools of cholangiocarcinoma research- a researcher’s reflection.
In December 2019, TargetCancer Foundation announced $240,000 in new cholangiocarcinoma grant funding. The following post was written by Grant Recipient Nabeel...
2018 NORD Summit: An Advocate’s Perspective
By Leslie Condon, TargetCancer Foundation Advocacy Council Chair The National Organization for Rare Disorders was formed after a small coalition of rare...
A new patient partnered initiative launches.
We are tremendously proud to announce the launch of the Gastroesophageal Cancer Project, a new, innovative patient partnered research initiative. The...
Announcing new 2018 grants
As our programs at TargetCancer Foundation continue to expand, we remain committed to our primary mission of funding innovative rare cancer research. We are...
2018 Cholangiocarcioma Foundation Annual Conference: Life-changing, Engaging, and Emotional
By Kim Balkus, TargetCancer Foundation Advocacy Council Member Writing a blog post after attending the 2018 Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Annual Conference...
A New Rare Cancer Partnership
How do you define a rare cancer? This is one the most commonly asked questions we receive- and the answer isn’t a simple one. While the default factor cited...
Looking back at 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, we are proud to look back on an outstanding year of new programs and research success for TargetCancer Foundation. In 2016...