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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reviewed its experience with employees hired with past history of treatment for cancer. Included is followup on 74 such employees with data on age, cancer site, histology, interval between treatment and employment, personnel ratings, and current employment status. Fewer than one out of every thousand applicants for a job have a history of cancer and half of these are employable. Persons with a wide variety of cancer types are acceptable. Employment record is good with a normal "turnover" and 55% working at the termination of the study period. There were no deaths during the study period. Cancer recurrence rate was 2.7%, and 2.7% developed a second primary neoplasm. We conclude that the selective hiring of persons who have been treated for cancer, in positions for which they are physically qualified, is a sound industrial practice.
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