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What You Should Know About Insurance Before You Have Genetic Testing

What You Should Know About Insurance Before You Have Genetic Testing

by Caitlin Kingsley | Jun 26, 2019 | News

When I began seeing patients for cancer genetic counseling and testing back in the mid 1990s, one of the greatest fears our patients expressed was that genetic testing could tank their insurability. Frankly, genetic counselors shared this fear. We were entering...
Should Life Insurers Have Access To Genetic Test Results

Should Life Insurers Have Access To Genetic Test Results

by Caitlin Kingsley | Nov 18, 2014 | Genetic Journal

This week JAMA published a viewpoint on whether life insurers should have access to genetic test results and, understandably, it unearthed some long-standing fears about genetic discrimination. We do have protection from some forms of such discrimination under the...

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