Work absence after breast cancer diagnosis: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Absence from work after breast cancer diagnosis may be part of the burden of disease for women with cancer, but little research has addressed this. We examined work absences of 4 weeks or more among women who had had breast cancer during the 3 years after diagnosis and compared their absences with those of women who had never had cancer.

Methods

Our 2 target study groups were women in Quebec 18-59 years of age who were working when they first received therapy for breast cancer between November 1996 and August 1997 and similarly aged women randomly selected from provincial health care files who had never had cancer and were working at the time of diagnosis in women who had cancer. We interviewed 646 women who had had breast cancer (73% of those eligible) and 890 wo

SUBMITTER: Drolet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1216317 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature