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     Deva Intermediate Member Username: Deva Post Number: 58 Registered: 02-2003 |
> Do you know 55 women? If so, at least one of them will have this VERY > AGGRESSIVE cancer. Please, go to your doctor and insist on a CA-125 test > and have one EVERY YEAR for the rest of your life. > > And forward this message to every woman you know, and tell all of your > female family members and friends. > > Though the median age for this cancer is 56, (and, guess what, I'm > exactly 56), women as young as 22 have it. Age is no factor. > > A NOTE FROM THE RN: > > Well, after reading this, I made some calls. I found that the CA-125 test > is an ovarian screening test equivalent to a man's PSA test prostrate > screen (which my husband's doctor automatically gives him in his physical > each year and insurance pays for it). I called the general practitioner's > office about having the test done. The nurse had never heard of it. She > told me that she doubted that insurance would pay for it. So I called > Prudential Insurance Co., and got the same response. Never heard of it -- > it won't be covered. > > I explained that it was the same as the PSA test they had paid for my > husband for years. After conferring with whomever they confer with, she > told me that the CA-125 would be covered. It is $75 in a GP's office and > $125 at the GYN's. This is a screening test that should be required just > like a PAP smear (a PAP smear cannot detect problems with your ovaries). > And you must insist that your insurance company pay for it. > > Gene Wilder and Pierce Brosnan (his wife had it, too) are lobbying for > women's health issues, saying that this test should be required in our > physicals, just like the PAP and the mammogram. Please take care of yourselves,as my aunt has gone throught this. ~Dee~ |
