Living with LFS has many challenges, stresses, and choices. We do not get to choose our DNA or IF we will get cancer. We can choose whether or not to screen or make lifestyle choices that affect our health. In a recent perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Shekinah N.C. Elmore, M.D. shares her experience with LFS as a patient, medical student and doctor. Most importantly, Dr. Elmore discusses the devastation, the emotional aspects of learning to live as an "Onco-mutant" and how it changed her outlook on life and health care. The link below will take you to the article, P53 and Me.
P53 and ME by Shekinah N.C. Elmore, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine
