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The title of this article has several applications to the day by day problems of medical underwriting faced by Medical Directors in their evaluation of the cancer history life insurance applicant.
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Higgins, E.V. (1962). Cancer — the challenger. In: Annals of Life Insurance Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85611-2_7
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