Ban life and disability insurers from using genetic results
Fear of losing insurance stops many people having genetic tests. Extending non-discrimination law to life and disability cover, as Canada has, would remove that fear.
The US Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act excludes life and disability insurance; Canada's Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (2017) covers all uses. Propose extension of protections in countries lacking them, with evaluation of testing uptake.
- Inherited risk is mostly unidentified · Most people who carry a high-risk cancer gene do not know it until they or a relative gets cancer.
- Prevention we already have is not deployed · Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools we already own: vaccines, tobacco control, weight, alcohol, sun and infection control.
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