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Breast Cancer Survival
Employment status of cancer survivors is not associated with adjuvant therapy
January 26th, 2006
The employment status of cancer survivors does not appear to be associated with adjuvant therapy. "Little is known about factors increasing likelihood of not working among breast cancer survivors compared with women in the general population," noted investigators in Canada. "A population-based retrospective cohort study was conducted in Quebec, Canada, based on the consecutive series of working women aged younger than 60 years when first treated for breast cancer (identified through the Quebec Tumor Registry), and on a group of randomly selected similar women, living in Quebec, who were working at the time of survivors' diagnoses, but who were without cancer (identified...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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