Of the four females participating in the survey, three say that working helps them recover, and experts agree. The support and communication of employers and physicians cancer li is very important for women.
According to the research, breast cancer 77 percent of working women think that working helps them recover. This view is that the participant health is supported by almost all of its employees (92%).
The first in-depth study of breast cancer and worker's views on breast cancer and workplace by working women with breast cancer, the In-Company Sharing Platform study, was conducted by the Cancer and Careers organization, which supports and educates cancer patients to stay in working life. Pfizer .
Since diagnosis was made online by the Harris Poll research company, there were 1.002 women with breast cancer, 102 from employers and 200 health care workers who were seeking a job, treating breast cancer patients. The striking findings from Pfizer's research as part of the Breast Cancer: A Story Half Told initiative are as follows:
Women with breast cancer, including the advanced stage of breast cancer, including metastatic breast cancer, want to work for both financial and emotional reasons:
56% of women surveyed prefer to work even in their current situation. When asked why they were asked to do so, participants indicated why they needed income (59%), followed by psychosocial reasons (41%), personal satisfaction (38%) and desire for normal feeling (29%). It seems that the desire to feel normal as a reason to work in women with particularly metastatic breast cancer is about twice as much (25% versus 25%) than the women with earlier stage breast cancer.
Women with breast cancer feel that despite their desire for work, their illness affects their work lives negatively:
Approximately half (48%) of the women participating in the study think that the illness and treatment (especially side effects of treatment, 36%) adversely affect their work life, lead to extra redundancy, to work with a lighter program, to get paid or unpaid leave or to leave work.
Health workers have opportunities to increase support for women who are working with breast cancer treatment:
The women who participated in the survey say that physicians generally feel that they are helping with work life and cancer, while about half say that their work lives are not taken into consideration when treatment decisions are made. In addition, 87 per cent of oncologists and 92 per cent of nurses / mobile nurses / medical-social workers emphasize that there should be more opportunities for women with breast cancer to be able to help them in their working environment.
Pfizer Oncology Department, Turkey Country Medical Leader Dr. Elif Coşkunçay Yener, "Breast cancer is an illness that may require many difficult decisions, such as continuing to work while being treated." "As research shows, working with women with breast cancer not only financial but also emotionally valuable. Especially in the metastatic stage, women who are treated constantly want to protect their sense of normality. "
Breast cancer is the leading cancer type among women1. There is a risk that every 8 females in life will get cancer. Turkey 1 in every 4 women with breast cancer from breast cancer kanseridir.2 "A single treatment method is good for all patients" approach replaces the "People with special treatment" has left. In this respect, it has become possible for patients to be removed from unwanted side effects by increasing their chances of success with more effective treatments.
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