Article
Insurance adjudication favoring prophylactic surgery in hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Apr 1995
Lynch H T, Severin M J, Mooney M J, Lynch J
Abstract excerpt
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 h...
Topics
- Adult
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans
- Breast Neoplasms
- Family Health
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nebraska
- Ovarian Neoplasms
- Ovariectomy
- Pedigree
- Syndrome