Bowel Cancer

Fear of Insurance Rejection Deters Potentially Life Saving Genetic Tests for Bowel Cancer 2>

An Australian study of families with genetic risk of bowel cancer has found that 50 percent of participants declined genetic testing when informed of insurance implications.

“This indicates that people have a significant fear of insurance discrimination which impacts their decision to have potentially life saving genetic testing,” says co-lead author Dr Louise Keogh, of the [...]