How Much Life Insurance Can You Get If You Have Been Diagnosed With Breast Cancer? 
If you have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer , you can get up to $ 25,000 of `` guaranteed '' issue coverage with one or more carriers . If you are over age 50 , you could get up to about $ 100,000 that way , although it will be costly . Once you are 1 to 2 years since your past treatment , you can get more with `` simplified '' issue insurance . And once you are in remission over a year , you may be able to get a much larger amount of `` medically underwritten '' life insurance , depending on the stage of your breast cancer , treatment , etc. . 