Abstract
The proportion of cancer deaths among ordinary policyholders in United States life insurance companies increased from 18.6% in 1955 to 22.3% in 1977, according to the latest figures published by the Institute of Life Insurance. Some companies paid more than 25% of their total death claims on account of cancer. Over this same period the proportion of deaths attributed to ischemic and related heart diseases declined from more than 35% to 31.6%. If recent mortality trends continue, cancer may in the near future emerge as the leading cause of death in some companies.
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Lew, E.A. (1980). Variations in Cancer Mortality. In: Tanner, E., Hefti, M.L. (eds) Annals of Life Insurance Medicine 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67629-1_15
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