EvidenceUpdates: Interventions to enhance return-to-work for cancer patients. Cochrane Database Systematic Rev. 2011

Cancer survivors are 1.4 times more likely to be unemployed than healthy people. It is therefore important to provide cancer patients with programmes to support the return-to-work process.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at enhancing return-to-work in cancer patients.

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full free access: jan 2011 Cancer and Work - A Canadian Perspective Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology

Return-to-work interventions integrated into cancer care: a systematic review - Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Objectives The purpose of this study was to review the literature on the content of interventions focusing on return to work, employment status, or work retention in patients with cancer. Furthermore, the effect of the interventions on return to work was assessed in studies reporting return to work.
Conclusions Only few interventions are primarily aimed at enhancing return to work in patients with cancer and most do not fit the shared care model involving integrated cancer care. Future studies should be developed with well-structured work-directed components that should be evaluated in randomised controlled trials.