A girl struggles to decide whether to be tested for the genetic mutation linked to her father’s cancer. Would it be better not to know
by Ilonka Dee Dylan broke his arm two months ago. About a year and a half ago, we gave Dylan a skateboard after he nagged
Support LFS Hardship Grants by ordering an LFS Awareness Day Elephant Shirt! But… why elephants? The TP53 gene is a tumor-suppressor gene, often called “the
by Fannie Lemay – When I was diagnosed with Li-Fraumeni syndrome in 2016 and then three weeks later with stage 3 brain cancer, I felt
I took this photo and wrote the following in May of 2019, on my 10 year anniversary of moving home to San Diego from Australia. As
by Fannie Lemay I always loved to work. Even when I was cutting carrots at IGA for a living, I loved it. Well, maybe “love”
In 2002, I noticed a lump on the innerside of my upper left leg. The doctor thought of scar tissue caused by a mosquito bite,
A woman with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome has almost a 100% chance of getting cancer in her lifetime. Although most of this risk is due to Breast
I was diagnosed with a stage 4 Osteosarcoma in my right knee aged 19. It had spread to my lungs and the tumour was the
Choroid Plexus Brain Tumors are highly associated with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. The choroid plexus is within each ventricle in the brain; a series of vessels and tissue
