Unemployment among adult survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the childhood cancer survivor study

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1015-1025

  Kirchhoff, Anne C ^a,b   Leisenring, Wendy ^a   Krull, Kevin R ^c   Ness, Kirsten K ^c   Friedman, Debra L ^d   Armstrong, Gregory T ^c   Stovall, Marilyn ^e   Park, Elyse R ^f   Oeffinger, Kevin C ^g   Hudson, Melissa M ^c   Robison, Leslie L ^c   Wickizer, Thomas ^h  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer survivorship; employment; pediatric cancer; socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; UNEMPLOYMENT; VOCATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049340837     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181eaf880     Document Type: Article

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