What support is provided in your country to enable you to work during and after treatment? Bogda Koczwara, Senior Staff Specialist, Medical Oncology, National Breast Cancer Foundation Practitioner and Fellow, Flinders University, notes that 'in Australia, there is no system to support people returning to work after cancer treatment – or to provide advice to their doctors or employers on how to help them.
Cancer and its treatment can have a profound impact on the patient’s ability to work. A recent Australian study of 255 cancer patients showed 67% changed their employment after cancer and for 63%, the household income had reduced since diagnosis.'
A problem that is to difficult resolve and gets worse by the day under noncaring governments that relax regulations under the guise of better business....
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