Working party puts forward new definition of prostate cancer for critical illness cover
The ABI Critical Illness Working Party has proposed a new draft of the cancer definition for critical illness (CI) insurance. The latest draft follows news of the Government's intention to introduce population-based prostate cancer screenings across the UK. The new definition, which is open to further consultation, means both aggressive and more advanced but slower progressing cases of prostate cancer will be covered but less serious cases will not. The revised definition includes an extra point excluding all tumours of the prostate, unless they are classified as having a Gleason sco...
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