Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International (iCureASPS)

New article reports that David Vistica from NCI 3 years long efforts resulted in successful establishment of the adequate living ASPS cell line that will accelerate investigations into the biology of ASPS including identification of new therapeutic approaches for treatment of this slow growing soft tissue sarcoma. It means that any researcher interested in trying the new drugs or combination can now do a preclinical studies in a dish to see how it works there to sort out the most promising drugs or combination before to proceeding to a clinical trial stage. People get more chance to be enrolled into the trial that is right for ASPS treatment.
The article "ASPS-1, A Novel Cell Line Manifesting Key Features of Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma." is published in J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2011 May.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552147

This is wonderful news!!!:)

Wonderful news! Thank you Dr. Vistica! We know you have a dog in this fight and are grateful for your dedication. I see Dr. Schrump is also listed. He is a lovely and compassionate man.