The first-ever FOM Meeting in Guwahati
Report by Rajiv Kumar (Friends of Max ) in Guwahati It was 25th of September 2016 and it was the…
Support Group Meeting in New Delhi (Oct 2) – focus on 2nd Gen TKIs
The Max Foundation & Friends of Max in association with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital organized “A support group meeting with…
GIST Experts Moving Toward Personalized Medicine Approach to Treatment
The GIST (gastrointestinal stromal tumor) field has done a nice job of determining that each GIST is not alike, said…
FOM Kolkata celebrates World CML Day
– Report by Ramanathan Sheshadhari FOM Kolkata and Max had the honor to `associate with Tata Medical Center to celebrate…
GIST Awareness Day at The Max Foundation Office
We bring together our GIST patients and their caregivers periodically for regular support group meetings. These meetings are held in…
The Gift of Time: GIST Awareness Day
Awareness: to have a heightened sense. To cope with and ‘manage’ fear. To treasure special and happy memories as a…
CML Horizons Conference 2016
The CML Horizons Conference (Slovenia, 6-8 May 2016), hosted by the non-profit organization Leukemia Patient Advocates Foundation, is the main…
New Horizons GIST Meet 2016
I had the good fortune of attending the New Horizons GIST meet in Sitges, Barcelona Spain in May 18-21 2016.…
GIST Awareness Day!
The Max Foundation & Friends fo Max invite all GIST survivors and caregivers to celebrate GIST AWARENESS DAY 2016 “The…
World No Tobacco Day
Tobacco-related cancer is not a death sentence. Early detection and proper care can prevent calamities. At Friends of Max we…
Announcing Leadership Summit
The 3rd Friends of Max Leadership Summit is scheduled for the 17th and 18th of December 2016 at Hotel Abad Plaza,…
1st Patient Support Group Meeting @Nashik
Maharashtra Regional meet for CML and GIST patients was held in Nashik on
First FOM Meeting at Bhopal and Fourth Meeting at Madhya Pradash
The FOM meeting held on 20th March 2016 at Bhopal’s Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Chatrashakti was almost a dream coming…
1st FOM Meeting @Visakhapatnam
The Friends of Max meeting held on 12th March 2016 at Visakhapatnam ( a.k.a Vizag) was almost a dream coming…
‘WE CAN, I CAN’
World Cancer day is celebrated on 4th February and is aimed at the promotion of research for curing as well…
5th Friends of Max Odisha Meet
“After all, Hope is the only thing which keeps us all alive” The 5th Friends of Max Meet of Odisha…
GIST Awareness Day
The Max Foundation and Friends of Max constantly strive to create awareness regarding cancer. We now have another opportunity to…
GIST Awareness Day Meet- 13th June, 2015
Outside the weather was cloudy and it was drizzling slightly. All the GIST patients and their caregivers had gathered
Mumbai CML and GIST Support Group Meet – May 23, 2015
The Max Foundation and FOM had arranged a patient support group meeting on 23rd May, 2015 in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Bihar Regional Meet, Patna – 29th March 2015
It was a sunny Sunday of 29th March, when participants started gathering at the Patna museum premises, from different parts…
Friends of Max Leadership Summit 2015, Hyderabad
The second Friends of Max Leadership Summit was held on 18-19 April 2015 in Hyderabad.
Chai for Cancer 2015
Announcing Chai for Cancer A Fundraising Project by The Max Foundation and Friends of Max Sunday May 10th 2015, all…
2nd Leadership Summit
Announcing the 2nd All India FOM Leadership Summit 2015 The Max Foundation and Friends of Max (FOM) are organizing their…
Pune Meet Report – January 11, 2015
The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their…
Support Group Meetings
Our Patient Support Group Meetings are a means of building community resources and providing patients and caregivers with treatment-related information and emotional support. These gatherings, held in different cities and towns all over India, bring patients together and empower them by the sharing of and learning from each other’s experiences.
