Families and Scientists Gather to Discuss Research and Treatment for Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

An archived video of the full meeting is available through the NIH Videocast Web site.

"...Li-Fraumeni syndrome was first described in a 1969 publication in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Dr. Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., the director of DCEG, and his colleague Dr. Frederick P. Li. They described four families in which several members developed a wide variety of cancers as children or young adults. Many of the patients had multiple primary tumors, most notably breast cancer, soft tissue and bone sarcomas, brain tumors, adrenocortical neoplasms, and acute leukemia. Subsequent studies identified additional families that met the classic criteria for LFS. Other families had similar but less pronounced aggregations of cancer and were classified as Li-Fraumeni-like (LFL)...."