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Employers are usually very carefull about terminating employees wrongfully. You could contact your state's labor board to see if they could tell you if you have any recourse. If you have any documentation as to why you were terminated and documentation of a timeline of when (and who) you informed at your employer of your cancer and the date of your notification of termination, that would help your case.
If you were within your probationary period, however, it would be easier (legally) to terminate you.
In regards to pre-existing, if you had group coverage through a previous employer and the gap in coverage from your old employer (the one before the one that just terminated you) to the one that just terminated you was less than 63 days, they could not exclude any pre-existing condtions. It gets complicated after that and I would need more info about your situation.
Here is a link that may answer some of your questions about COBRA:
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_cobra.html
Here is a link that may answer some of your questions about pre-existing and HIPAA regulations:
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_hipaa.html
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