Clinical correspondence: Cancer survivors and return to work: current knowledge and future research (2017)

It is a common cultural belief and also a moral position that working is a sign of health and reflects the ability to contribute to the common good. Research on occupational rehabilitation of cancer survivors has been conducted for about 40 years. It started with ground‐breaking studies in the mid‐1970s that showed that cancer survivors were discriminated against at work and denied insurance because of the often fatal prognosis of their disease. In the 1980s and 1990s, more factors were taken into account in this line of research; specifically, the predictive effect of these factors on return to work and work ability was explored. For example, we learned that younger survivors and men are more likely to return to work and that employer accommodation and flexible working arrangements, such as modified work hours, facilitate work ability in survivors of all types of cancer.1It is a common cultural belief and also a moral position that working is a sign of health and reflects the ability to contribute to the common good. Research on occupational rehabilitation of cancer survivors has been conducted for about 40 years. It started with ground‐breaking studies in the mid‐1970s that showed that cancer survivors were discriminated against at work and denied insurance because of the often fatal prognosis of their disease. In the 1980s and 1990s, more factors were taken into account in this line of research; specifically, the predictive effect of these factors on return to work and work ability was explored. For example, we learned that younger survivors and men are more likely to return to work and that employer accommodation and flexible working arrangements, such as modified work hours, facilitate work ability in survivors of all types of cancer.1It is a common cultural belief and also a moral position that working is a sign of health and reflects the ability to contribute to the common good. Research on occupational rehabilitation of cancer survivors has been conducted for about 40 years. It started with ground‐breaking studies in the mid‐1970s that showed that cancer survivors were discriminated against at work and denied insurance because of the often fatal prognosis of their disease. In the 1980s and 1990s, more factors were taken into account in this line of research; specifically, the predictive effect of these factors on return to work and work ability was explored. For example, we learned that younger survivors and men are more likely to return to work and that employer accommodation and flexible working arrangements, such as modified work hours, facilitate work ability in survivors of all types of cancer.1is a common cultural belief and also a moral position that working is a