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Hi, I am hoping to get some help/advice.
I got my private 2 years ago, but was issued a 3rd class medical certificate because I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) and LCIS (lobular carcinoma in situ) 5 years ago. There was NO invasive cancer, and I had a double mastectomy, end of story. However, it became apparent that the folks who did the processing were looking at breast CANCER, and did not understand that DCIS/LCIS are not in truth cancers despite the scary-sounding name. I can understand that things can be complicated, but I have been unable to talk with anyone there, and my letters explaining this, including some from my surgeon and primary doc, as well as literature on DCIS, have been completely ignored, other than to send me information on "bladder cancer" regulations. In the correspondence I have received, it looks as if only clerks have seen my information; they are signed "So and so FOR Dr. X." I am wondering if someone knows they made a mistake and just wants to bury rather than fix it. My medical examiner doesn't want to have anything to do with it. I am frustrated to have to go through the extra rigamarole for the 3rd class, at age 49, when my risk of breast cancer is less than every one in the building, including the men! Ironically, I am an oncologist, but no one cares, although the medical examiner took my expert advice over the phone about an acquaintance, on whom he was doing an exam, who happened to have remote Hodgkin's, but doesn't seem to be willing to make any phone calls on my behalf.
Is there any hope to get this 3rd class erased? If so, to whom should I write? Is there a statute of limitations on real cancers or premalignant lesions?
Thanks very much for any advice you can give.
I got my private 2 years ago, but was issued a 3rd class medical certificate because I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) and LCIS (lobular carcinoma in situ) 5 years ago. There was NO invasive cancer, and I had a double mastectomy, end of story. However, it became apparent that the folks who did the processing were looking at breast CANCER, and did not understand that DCIS/LCIS are not in truth cancers despite the scary-sounding name. I can understand that things can be complicated, but I have been unable to talk with anyone there, and my letters explaining this, including some from my surgeon and primary doc, as well as literature on DCIS, have been completely ignored, other than to send me information on "bladder cancer" regulations. In the correspondence I have received, it looks as if only clerks have seen my information; they are signed "So and so FOR Dr. X." I am wondering if someone knows they made a mistake and just wants to bury rather than fix it. My medical examiner doesn't want to have anything to do with it. I am frustrated to have to go through the extra rigamarole for the 3rd class, at age 49, when my risk of breast cancer is less than every one in the building, including the men! Ironically, I am an oncologist, but no one cares, although the medical examiner took my expert advice over the phone about an acquaintance, on whom he was doing an exam, who happened to have remote Hodgkin's, but doesn't seem to be willing to make any phone calls on my behalf.
Is there any hope to get this 3rd class erased? If so, to whom should I write? Is there a statute of limitations on real cancers or premalignant lesions?
Thanks very much for any advice you can give.