Occupational rehabilitation of male breast cancer patients: Return patterns, motives, experiences, and implications—A qualitative study

Hiltrop, Kati; Heidkamp, Paula; Halbach, Sarah; Brock-Midding, Evamarie; Kowalski, Christoph; Holmberg, Christine; Ernstmann, Nicole

doi:10.1111/ecc.13402

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“…5,18,19 Survivors may work because they need to (eg, insurance, income), but they may also work because they want to (eg, for a sense of normalcy and personal identity, distraction, need for activity, social contacts). 20,21 Approximately 35% to 46% of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States are between the ages of 20 and 64 years, and thus are generally considered to be of working age. 1,3,22 Therefore, as many as 6 to 8 million cancer survivors in the United States are at risk for difficulties surrounding employment.…”

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The NCCN Guidelines for Survivorship are intended to help healthcare professionals working with cancer survivors to ensure that each survivor’s complex and varied needs are addressed. The Guidelines provide screening, evaluation, and treatment recommendations for consequences of adult-onset cancer and its treatment; recommendations to help promote healthful lifestyle behaviors, weight management, and immunizations in survivors; and a framework for care coordination. This article summarizes the recommendations regarding employment and return to work for cancer survivors that were added in the 2021 version of the NCCN Guidelines.

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“…Our research showed that experiencing MBC is likely to be associated with health professionals' uncertainty and unmet needs (Halbach et al, 2020;Hiltrop et al, 2021;Midding et al, 2018Midding et al, , 2019. We thank the authors for the critical debate and appraisal of our study.…”

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“…gradual return) is valuable to design patient-centred, need-oriented interventions and that (gradual) RTW planning could be important for a successful RTW. Additionally, interventions targeting employers or caretakers could be beneficial when aiming for satisfying RTW outcomes due to specialists' lacking knowledge (Lamort-Bouché et al, 2020) and different communication needs of patients with the workplace (Hiltrop et al, 2021).…”

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“…While 70% of breast CSs who were employed at the time of diagnosis returned to work on average 8.3 years into survival, 3 problems meeting demands at work in the long run apparently exist. This aspect leads some researchers to understand return to work (RTW) as a process rather than a single event 4,5 …”

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Conflicting demands, coping, and adjustment: A grounded theory to understand rehabilitation processes in long‐term breast cancer survivors

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Objective This study explores rehabilitation processes in long‐term cancer survivors (CSs) and explains the causes, contexts, and consequences under which decisions related to rehabilitation are made. Methods Within the mixed‐methods Breast Cancer Patients' Return to Work (B‐CARE) project, conducted from 2018–2020, data were collected through a written survey and semi‐structured interviews with CSs 5–6 years after their diagnosis. In total, 184 female CSs participated in the survey, and 26 were interviewed. A qualitative grounded theory approach was applied. Results The 26 interviewees were 57 years old on average, 70% were married, and 65% had children. The participants experienced incompatibilities caused by the cancer disease in their areas of life and the demands that arose from it. To reconcile demands from the areas family, work, leisure time, household, and disease, the interviewed CSs used different coping mechanisms and adjusted their lives by prioritizing certain areas as a consequence. This prioritizing was often to the detriment of work and rehabilitation. Furthermore, it worked as a barrier for participation in rehabilitation programs and explains why CSs experienced job changes after their return to work. Conclusions Physical and mental long‐term effects were observed in the interviewees' lives 5–6 years into survival. The study results stress the importance of individualized and needs‐oriented survivorship care.

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Occupational rehabilitation of male breast cancer patients: Return patterns, motives, experiences, and implications—A qualitative study

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

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