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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is cutting life insurance rates for some women with breast cancer, citing improved treatment and research that is helping more women survive the disease.
The policies, which will cost the same as for healthy women, will be available to women 40 and older who have been treated for early stages of breast cancer. Previously, those women would have paid more for coverage or would have been denied coverage.
"Treatment for breast cancer has improved and continues to improve every year," said Ann Hoven, chief medical director of The Hartford's individual life division. "There really is a great deal of hope that we're winning the fight against breast cancer."
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