A comparative study of cancer patients with short and long sick-leave after primary treatment

Sickness absence among cancer patients in the pre-diagnostic and the post-diagnostic phases of five common forms of cancer

“…This is consistent with findings from a previous research stating that working ability improves over time and that a major part returns back to work [18][19][20][21][22][23]. The finding that prostate cancer patients at 12 months' post-diagnosis have returned to the same level of sick leave as before the cancer diagnosis is consistent with the findings of the study of Bradley et al [24].…”

Work Loss Duration and Predictors Following Rectal Cancer Treatment among Patients with and without Prediagnostic Work Loss

“…Among working-age patients, studies have also shown decreased work ability (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18). Higher risk of work loss among colorectal cancer survivors (and cancer survivors in general) has been associated with demographic factors such as lower education (10,15,17), unemployment at diagnosis (15), and previous sick leave (SL) episodes (10,15,17).…”

“…Although some clinical predictors of work loss have also been identified, including advanced stage (15,17), it is unclear to what extent these associations could be explained by cancer relapse during follow-up. Also, most previous studies have been based on small numbers of rectal cancer patients (10,11,15) or selfreported data (18) which could introduce bias.…”

“…Given the importance of work loss history as a predictor of continued work loss in other settings (10,11,14,15,18), the patients were stratified by the presence or absence of work loss 1 to 2 years before diagnosis.…”

Job and housework during radiotherapy: Comparisons between leaving out activities and disease treatment

“…The occurrence of long-term sick-leave is related in patients who had treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other combinations, because of changes in overall working ability, mental work ability and lack of supervisor's support at work, which could be different with interventions of health care personnel [10].…”