This goes out to all of you who have Ovarian Cancer or are somehow intimate with the inner workings of the medical profession and insurance industry:
My Girlfriend (I won't name her name to keep her identity private) was told by her doctor that she is at a very high risk for ovarian cancer. She has a condition called PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), that is according to her and her doctor, very extreme. She wants to have her ovaries removed but she is afraid to ask and unsure how to move forward. She fears that the insurance company will label the surgery as elective and it would be all out of pocket. She also fears that most doctors would refuse to do it because she is also concerned that the doctors will refuse to agree to it out of religious objections because she is in her mid 30s and still of child bearing age. I just want to give her the best advice I can give her. I'm hoping that someone who has gone through a similar road might be able to shed some light on this. I have already suggested she ask her doctor to draft a letter stating that removing her ovaries would be a "life saving procedure" to get past any insurance company objections, and then get a 2nd and 3rd opinion.
I'm sure that some people who have been diagnosed with Ovarian cancer must have been told after the fact "If only you had done X, then we could have gotten in front of it". Is this a good path to "get in front of it?". Would it make sense to remove something that is a ticking time bomb? I just want to make sure she doesn't catch cancer.
Sincerely
-M, from Ohio, December 4th, 2018