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Work plays a vital role in recovery after cancer and cancer treatment and has implications for not only the survivor, but also the employer and healthcare professionals. Over the past 40 years, important steps forward in aiding and supporting cancer patients and survivors in their return to work have been made. Attention shifted from focusing solely on job discrimination to efforts to not only identify risk factors, but also by developing evidence-based interventions to promote work reintegration as well work sustainability. This chapter reviews the literature to provide an overview of the current evidence regarding factors influencing return to work and continuation of work post treatment, provides a detailed summary of the current evidence based approaches and interventions for managing work problems in cancer survivors, and provides resources that highlight programs and interventions across the globe for managing work problems. In addition, the latest developments and changes in policies worldwide are discussed and necessary future steps are outlined.

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  1. Department of Community and Health Systems, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Diane Von Ah

  2. Dutch Cancer Society, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Saskia Duijts

  3. Department of Public and Occupational Health, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Saskia Duijts

  4. Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  5. VU University Medical Center, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  6. Coronel Instituut voor Arbeid en Gezondheid, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Angela de Boer

  7. School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, National Centre for Sports and Exercise, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

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Von Ah, D., Duijts, S., van Muijen, P., de Boer, A., Munir, F. (2018). Work. In: Feuerstein, M., Nekhlyudov, L. (eds) Handbook of Cancer Survivorship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77432-9_12

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