Genetic Disorders: Neurofibromatosis

Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder where tumors form on the brain and any other nerve tissue such as the spinal cord, nerves or any area on or under the skin. These can form cancer and symptoms other than tumors can include learning disability, hearing loss, heart problems, vision loss, high blood pressure, muscle loss, brown spots and chronic pain. This disease can be passed on from generation to generation and is caused by a variation or mutation in the genes.
Neurofibromatosis is a non curable disease but many research dollars and working hours are being spent developing a cure. Although this disease is not able to be cured it is able to be treated and relived. Treatments include but are not limited to tumor removal surgery, Stereotactic radiosurgery (a type of surgery that uses radiation applied directly to the tumor in order to shrink it), and chemotherapy, which both are generally treated later than 2 years of age due to symptoms appearing later in life. These two treatments reduce the size or remove tumors in order to reduce the pain of them pressing on near by nerves. In some cases cochlear implants are added which can be installed slightly after 1
Even though blood tests are taken to biohazard containers and then sent off to be incinerated. It comes down to the fact that if people could get their hands on a medical record of someone who has had a genetic screening and that person may become biased or discriminate against that person. For example; an insurance company not offering insurance because a person has a high chance of having inherited leukemia. This simply isn’t something that should be allowed to happen and laws that require organizations to accept people even if they may have an inherited genetic disease or a higher risk for that disorder need to be created and somehow enforced. Infact people shouldn’t be allowed to view a person's information without their consent in the first