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For those of you who have moved to another country with CML or know someone who has - what was your experience like? Did your new health insurance cover TKIs fully, partially or not at all? Was the premium more expensive because you had an existing condition? Anything else to take into consideration when moving, other than making sure the nearest hospital with hematology department isn't too far away?

In my country, which is in EU, Tasigna 800mg/day currently costs around 50,000 euros per year (this may change when generics become available), so I can understand if insurances elsewhere would not be willing to cover this.

Ive moved around a lot since diagnosis. So i keep my own copy of med records and track myself as well as Letting the docs do it.

For your questions, it Very much depends where you are moving to! Feel free to DM me with details and ill see if i can help more.

Standards on monitoring vary 3 months dor some places, 6 months for others so you might not need to have a hematologist oncologist very close.

Does where you're moving to have nationalised health care or mandatory health insurance? If so, then getting covered for pre existing will not be an issue

Aside from insurance be aware that labs can have differences in units for blood parameters and slightly different bcr/abl counts.

If you can share more details here or in dm i can maybe help more