Work and Cancer Survivors by Michael Feuerstein

Author:Michael Feuerstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer New York, New York, NY

A total of 34 papers was found in which 40 original empirical studies were reported of which 24 were controlled studies. The overall meta-analysis of these 24 controlled studies showed that survivors of childhood cancers were almost twice as likely to be unemployed in later life than healthy controls (odds ratio (OR) = 1.85 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.27–2.69) [20]. In the meta-analysis, we excluded students from the data. Twelve of the controlled studies were performed in the USA and the other twelve controlled studies were from countries in Europe and one from Israel. We found that in the USA, the overall risk to become unemployed after childhood cancer was over three times higher than in the control group (OR 3.24 [95% CI, 2.16–4.86]), see Fig. 8.1. However, no difference in unemployment was found between the patient and control groups in Europe (OR 1.00 [95% CI, 0.58 to 1.70]), see Figure 8.2.

Fig. 8.1USA: Unemployment in young survivors of childhood cancer

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