PocoLoco wrote:
snip..
However, we had some bad news waiting for us. My older daughter underwent an MRI
which showed three breast tumors. Biopsies showed two to be benign, but one is
malignant. Now the younger daughter is very concerned, and wants to have a test
of her genes to determine if she inherited the BRAC1 or BRAC2 gene from her
mother, who died of 'abdominal' cancer. She, however, is concerned that if the
test comes back positive, she will lose her health insurance. Has anyone ever
heard of that?


Sorry to hear that John. I hope she gets through this with a minimum of
problems. We had our scare last summer when my wife went to a
specialist who discovered polyps in the uterus. They got her in early,
did the partial H deal and she's fine. That seems to be the
trick...catching it early. Best of luck to her.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:01:51 GMT, Don White wrote:

PocoLoco wrote:
snip..
However, we had some bad news waiting for us. My older daughter underwent an MRI
which showed three breast tumors. Biopsies showed two to be benign, but one is
malignant. Now the younger daughter is very concerned, and wants to have a test
of her genes to determine if she inherited the BRAC1 or BRAC2 gene from her
mother, who died of 'abdominal' cancer. She, however, is concerned that if the
test comes back positive, she will lose her health insurance. Has anyone ever
heard of that?


Sorry to hear that John. I hope she gets through this with a minimum of
problems. We had our scare last summer when my wife went to a
specialist who discovered polyps in the uterus. They got her in early,
did the partial H deal and she's fine. That seems to be the
trick...catching it early. Best of luck to her.

Thanks Don. The malignant tumor is about 1.5 cm in diameter, so they think
they've gotten it pretty early.

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD