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Not THE tumor suppressor gene..TP53...but a tumor suppressor gene! Good stuff.
It's hard making friends, especially if you're a cancer gene.
(Reposting with a correction.)
5 years ago, living LFS was a little sapling. An idea, a hope for big shady branches of support for those living Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Shannon not only designed our logo, she IS living LFS. www.livinglfs.org/shannon-writes-about-growing-up-lfs/
How do we prevent cancer? Dr. Joseph Fraumeni has been very invested in cancer etiology and prevention. Dr. Beti Thompson was recently awarded the American Society of Preventive Oncology annual Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2018/03/american-society-preventive-oncology-honors-beti-th...
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Women with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome have close to 100% chance of developing cancer in their lifetime. About half of all these cancers develop before age 30 and about 50% of the risk is due to breast cancer. The risk of breast cancer by age 60 for women is 85%. So, what’s a lady mutant to do? Understand YOUR Risk. Not everyone’s risk is the same. Meeting with a practitioner, ideally a Genetic Counselor familiar with LFS is a good way … read more
Genetics are very complicated. There are so many factors that influence how we become who we are on the cellular level and beyond. A good friend of mine always points out- there are many ways to make a family. Those of us in the support group learned that as we have become a family of misfit mutants. Yet even within our small numbers, there are the rare of the rare. I remember at the conference in Boston, talks turned to … read more