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DLL · 02-19-2009, 07:55 AM

Hi, I've completed chemo (TCH) and will finish radiation next week. (Herceptin will continue for the full year, of course.) Tamoxifen is next on my treatment plan. I am ER+/PR+/HER2+. I am also age 47 and pre-menopausal, but now in "chemopause". My oncologist has mentioned if there is ever an opportunity to have my ovaries removed, do it! My question is, does health insurance typically cover a surgical procedure to remove the ovaries to shut off the estrogen for a highly ER+ pre-menopausal woman, when there is nothing wrong with the ovaries per se?

Thanks!

02-19-2009, 07:55 AM	#11
DLL Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: MN Posts: 12	Hi, I've completed chemo (TCH) and will finish radiation next week. (Herceptin will continue for the full year, of course.) Tamoxifen is next on my treatment plan. I am ER+/PR+/HER2+. I am also age 47 and pre-menopausal, but now in "chemopause". My oncologist has mentioned if there is ever an opportunity to have my ovaries removed, do it! My question is, does health insurance typically cover a surgical procedure to remove the ovaries to shut off the estrogen for a highly ER+ pre-menopausal woman, when there is nothing wrong with the ovaries per se? Thanks!