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Insurance vs Treatment

"Let's go sis, home at last."

Sweet words for breast cancer patient Dolores Jovan after undergoing the best hope for her survival..

Dolores Jovan/Cancer Patient - "This treatment was real vital to me."

But along the way, she found out her insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan wouldn't cover her treatment.

:Dolores Jovan/Cancer Patient - "That caused additional anxiety because I knew it could be thousands of dollars."

The same thing happened to Terry Dee, delaying her procedure by a month.

Terry Dee/Cancer patient - "If you deal with the stress it feeds the cancer and this didn't help me at all."

But today, Blue Cross Blue Shield not only gave Terry and Dolores the greenlight, they approved this revolutionary treatment for earlier stages of breast cancer and all ovarian cancers.

Dr. William Peters/Karmanos Cancer Institute - "I think this is a great day for patients of because this is a great treatment option for them."

We know that chemotherapy kills cancer. The more you give the more cancer cells you kill. in this treatment, doctor give very high doses, but the problem is this also kills off healthy infection fighting stem cells, that's where the chemotherapy comes in.

Dr. William Peters/Karmanos Cancer Institute - "You can give them a high dosese of chemotherapy and then you do a transplant to repopulate their bone marrow."

Dr. William Peters pioneered this treatment. He's performed it successfully
on several hundred women through the Karmanos Cancer Institue for many women bone marrow tranplant was a last resort. Today it will be available as the
first line of attack.

Terry Dee/Breast Cancer Patient - "I'm thrilled for everyone. I dont' think anyone should have to suffer like this because of a calculator."


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