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[quote=Anonymous]Mine was covered by insurance because of a strong family history of breast and ovarian cancer for my mother, grandmother and maternal aunt.

I was negative for genetic risk.  Then my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and I was diagnosed with DCIS, hormone sensitive.   Discussed with a genetic counselor and multiple doctors and decided to have an oophorectomy.  Had my genetic risk been evident with testing, I would probably have had the oophorectomy earlier.  Genetic counselor felt it was possible that there's a genetic risk in my family that isn't in the current testing.

Word to the wise, if you don't yet have life insurance in place, get it set before even discussing it with your doctor. When I applied the life insurance company found the note in my doctors records and basically priced it as if I were BRCA positive.  They said I could reapply if I did get tested and turned out to be BRCA negative.  I did, but before I could go through the reapplication process I got the DCIS diagnosis which basically scuttled the whole thing![/quote]

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