Abstract
The situation of cancer patients returning to work has taken a turn for the better. Where early research reported profound job discrimination of cancer patients (e.g. Feldman1), recent literature suggests that breast cancer patients are only slightly less frequently unemployed than their healthy controls.
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Verbeek, J., Spelten, E. (2007). Work. In: Feuerstein, M. (eds) Handbook of Cancer Survivorship. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34562-8_21
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