Cancer Survivors and Returning to Work
2010-07-26
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Cancer Survivors and Returning to Work
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Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. More than 11 million Americans are cancer survivors and the number is growing. Yet little is known about how to help working-age cancer survivors as they return to their jobs and try to balance work, life, and their health. Nancy Nachreiner, an environmental health professor at the University of Minnesota, is trying to help. Recently, she conducted a study involving 110 working-age women who are cancer survivors. The Minnesota Medical Foundation funded the study. <Nachreiner: “We were looking at changes in the first six months after diagnosis and we were finding that by month two, that was the key month where most woment were decreasing their work hours. So, you might think that it would peak in that first month, but actually it was that second month and probably due to a lot of the fatigue from the treatment that they were going through.”> Nachreiner says that the study results can help survivors, health providers, and employers. <Nachreiner: “It’s important for the providers who are working with these patients, so that they can help guide them through the process. It’s important for the patients because they need to know what to expect, and they need to know their own legal protections. I think it’s beneficial for the employers, too, because they’re keeping this very important asset to them. They’ve got these skilled employees who can remain in the workforce.”> With another Public Health Moment, I’m John Finnegan.
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Finnegan, John; Nancy Nachreiner. (2010). Cancer Survivors and Returning to Work. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257632.
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