About 15 years ago, a good friend of the family, who was about 65 at the time, started feeling chest pains, dizziness, and nausea as she was on her way to work. The pains were strong enough, that she turned around and drove herself to the hospital. It turns out she was at the beginning […]
What Your Insurance Company Isn’t Telling You About Breast Cancer
In light of a recent nursing symposium in Israel, I thought I would review the rights and specific navigational needs of women who are carriers of the BRCA mutation that increase risk breast and/or ovarian cancer. Approximately 5% of all breast cancers are caused by a mutation in the BRCA1 or 2 gene. However, if […]
