Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer predisposition syndromes often experience significant physical and psychosocial burdens. These burdens include cancer worry and potentially distressing bodily changes due to risk-reducing procedures (e.g., mastectomy) or cancer treatments. This qualitative-descriptive study explored how AYAs with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) relate and adjust to their bodies under the chronic threat of cancer.
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