Swanberg Jennifer E, Nichols Helen M, Ko Jungyai, Tracy J Kathleen, Vanderpool Robin C
a School of Social Work , University of Maryland , Baltimore , MD , USA.
b Department of Social Work , Hallym University , Chuncheon, Gangwon-do , South Korea.
J Psychosoc Oncol. 2017 Mar-Apr;35(2):180-201. doi: 10.1080/07347332.2016.1276503. Epub 2017 Jan 3.
Advances in breast cancer screening and treatment have led to an overall 5-year survival rate of 90%. Many of these cancer cases are diagnosed in working women. Few studies have explicitly examined the cancer-work interface, as experienced by low-wage earning women with breast cancer. This study uses in-depth, semistructured interviews with 24 low-wage breast cancer survivors to identify employment decisions and factors that influenced or enabled these decisions, and examine the individual strategies and workplace supports used to manage the cancer-work interface among a subset of women (n = 13) who continued to work. Future research areas and clinical implications are discussed.
乳腺癌筛查和治疗的进展使总体5年生存率达到了90%。这些癌症病例中有许多是在职业女性中被诊断出来的。很少有研究明确探讨过低收入乳腺癌女性所经历的癌症与工作的关系。本研究对24名低收入乳腺癌幸存者进行了深入的半结构化访谈，以确定就业决策以及影响或促成这些决策的因素，并考察了一部分继续工作的女性（n = 13）在处理癌症与工作的关系时所采用的个人策略和工作场所支持措施。文中还讨论了未来的研究领域和临床意义。
