RT Journal
A1 Mols F, van de Poll-Franse LV
T1 EMployment status among cancer survivors
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD July 1
VO 302
IS 1
SP 32
OP 35
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.903
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.903
AB 
Being treated with chemotherapy was a significant predictor of work changes after cancer diagnosis in our study of 403 Dutch long-term cancer survivors with a job before diagnosis.2 A Finnish study of 591 employed patients with cancer also concluded that both men and women who were treated with chemotherapy had more than twice the risk of impaired physical work ability than those who had received other treatments.3 A prospective Dutch study by de Boer et al4 of return to work in cancer patients reported that patients who received chemotherapy showed low work ability scores. Moreover, our study2 showed that patients treated with chemotherapy reported lower vitality scores as measured by the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey compared with patients treated otherwise, which can at least in part explain why chemotherapy was a significant predictor of work change.