Frederick P. Li
National Foundation for Cancer Research
7 Papers
140 Citations
Frederick P. Li is an academic researcher from National Foundation for Cancer Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
•Journal Article
A cancer family syndrome in twenty-four kindreds.
Frederick P. Li,Joseph F. Fraumeni,John J. Mulvihill,William A. Blattner,Margaret G. Dreyfus,Margaret A. Tucker,Robert W. Miller +6 more
TL;DR: The diversity of tumor types in this syndrome suggests pathogenetic mechanisms which differ from hereditary cancers arising in single organs or tissues and laboratory markers are needed to identify high-risk individuals and families and to provide insights into susceptibility mechanisms that may be shared by a wide variety of cancers.
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Familial Breast Cancer, Soft-Tissue Sarcomas, and Other Neoplasms
TL;DR: The findings on sarcomas, breast cancer, and other neoplasms affecting children and young adults in 4 families (A through D) are presented.
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Soft-Tissue Sarcomas, Breast Cancer, and Other Neoplasms
TL;DR: Four families were identified in which a pair of children had soft-tissue sarcomas: three sets of sibs and one set of cousins, and one parent of each affected child developed cancer.
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Ovarian cancers in the young. Epidemiologic observations.
TL;DR: Ovarian cancer mortality was low in young children, and the increase during adolescence and early adulthood was greater among non‐whites, and most tumors in the young were of the germ‐cell type (teratocarcinoma, dysgerminoma, and embryonal carcinoma) in contrast to a predominance of cystadenocarc in the elderly.
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Epidemiology of acute myelomonocytic leukemia in children.
TL;DR: Three patients had a well‐documented history of antecedent aplastic anemia, suggesting that prolonged myelodepression is an etiologic factor or precursor state in myelomonocytic leukemia.
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