The return-to-work rate for U.S. workers with breast cancer increased to about 59% in 2007, from 29% in 2001.
Unum Group Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn. (NYSE:UNM), has published that figure in a report released in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The 59% return-to-work rate is for people collecting short-term disability (STD) insurance Unum because of breast cancer.