Cancer Survivors More Likely To Lose Jobs
Report: Unemployment Comes From Disability, Discrimination
POSTED: Thursday, February 19, 2009
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People who beat cancer are more likely to be unemployed than healthy people, according to a new study.Researchers from Amsterdam said it was especially true for survivors of breast or gastrointestinal cancers.Author Angela G. E. M. de Boer found that cancer survivors had a 33.8 percent unemployment rate, compared to 15.2 percent for healthy people.She said that though half of cancer survivors are under 65, they face job discrimination and problems fitting in treatment with a work schedule. She also noted that cancer patients have a higher disability rate than the general population."Apart from the effects on employment, there are probably long-term effects of cancer on work ability, work capacity, and wage losses for a large group of survivors," she wrote.To reach their conclusions, they reviewed 16 studies from the U.S., 15 from Europe and 5 from other countries, including more than 20,000 cancer survivors and 157,000 healthy people.The report appeared in the Feb. 18 issue of JAMA.
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