If you’re a woman and you have health insurance or are contemplating getting health insurance, here’s an important question to think about. When you think of the term “pre-existing” condition, what comes to mind?

These days it’s probably diseases like diabetes, as well as health problems such as high cholesterol, excess weight, and the like. Serious health problems, diseases that can seriously impact on your quality of life, can require expensive or ongoing treatment — right? Yes…but that’s not all. And you might be shocked to find out what, for women, constitutes a pre-existing condition.

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Recent studies have shown that processed meats, such as sausage, could potentially contribute to cancer. Although it may not kill you tomorrow, a daily dose of the cured meat increases the risk of a number of cancers. The culprits include hot dogs, sausages, hamburgers (the ones that are processed), salami, ham, bacon and pastrami.

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To add on to the worries of smokers developing cancer in the lung, pharynx, larynx, esophagus and other respiratory areas, there is the possibility of having alterations in their DNA as well. Studies have shown that when you smoke tobacco, you are at risk of getting tumors on your colon and MSI. MSI, or microsatellite instability, is when your genes are damaged; it also blocks the cells from being able to repair the DNA that were damaged, which can lead to cancer growths to proceed without interruption.

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