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His research interests include familial predisposition to cancer, especially type 2 neurofibromatosis, Gorlin syndrome and breast/ovarian cancer.

Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disease in which multiple soft tumors (neurofibromas) develop under the skin and throughout the nervous system.

plexiform neurofibromas have also been described.

Successful surgical removal of neurofibromas has a survival rate of 50 to 90 percent.

Soft tumors (neurofibromas) are the hallmark of NF-1.

Children with a family history of neurofibromatosis are at highest risk for having either form of the condition.

There is no standard treatment for either type of neurofibromatosis.

Both forms of neurofibromatosis are caused by a defective gene.

Skin manifestations facilitate the diagnosis of genetic disease - well known examples include neurofibromatosis and tuberose sclerosis but there are many others.