When testing costs you: the genetic dilemma confronting Australians with life insurance

With insurance companies using genetic information to set prices and policies, advocates say the need for protection against genetic discrimination is urgent'

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After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene.

I thought, I need to know.' Hereditary cancer can develop at any point in your life and you have a 70% likelihood that it'll develop," the Brisbane PhD candidate says.