Insurance adjudication favoring prophylactic surgery in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome.

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Insurance payment to cover costs of prophylactic surgery is occasionally denied to patients who may be at inordinately high risk for hereditary cancer. We describe a 43-year-old woman from a hereditary breast-ovarian cancer (HBOC) family which showed linkage to BRCA1 and who was at inordinately high risk for cancer but who was denied insurance coverage for prophylactic oophorectomy, despite strong recommendations...

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