The Fact of Return to Work in Cervical Cancer Survivors and the Impact of Survival Rate
An 11-Year Follow-Up Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15475462 |
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| Authors | Yu‐Shan Sun (Tri-Service General Hospital), Yu-Shan Sun (Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan), Wei‐Liang Chen (0000-0003-0784-230X, Tri-Service General Hospital), Wei‐Te Wu (0000-0001-5054-8590, National Health Research Institutes), Wei-Te Wu (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 350, Taiwan), Chung‐Ching Wang (0000-0003-2808-4763, Tri-Service General Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 20 |
| Pages | 10703-10703 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph182010703 |
| OpenAlex | W3205921528 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The aim of the current cohort study was to explore the relationship between return to work (RTW) after cervical cancer treatment and different medical and occupational covariates. We also investigated the effect of RTW on all-cause mortality and survival outcomes of cervical cancer survivors. Data were collected between 2004 and 2015 from the database of the Taiwan Cancer Registry, Labor Insurance Database, and National Health Insurance Research Database. The associations between independent variables and RTW were analyzed by Cox proportional hazard models. A total of 4945 workers (82.3%) who returned to work within 5 years after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. Patients who underwent surgical treatment were more likely to RTW by the 5th year compared to other groups, with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.21 (95% CI: 1.01~1.44). Small company size and a monthly income greater than NT 38,200 were inversely associated with RTW (HR = 0.91, 95% CI: 0.84~0.98 and HR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.44~0.53). Furthermore, RTW showed a statistically significant decrease in the risk of all-cause mortality in the fully adjusted HR, (HR = 0.42, p < 0.001). Some medical and occupational factors are associated with RTW in cervical cancer survivors. Returning to work may have a beneficial effect on the survival of patients with cervical cancer
Cancer · Cancer registry · Cervical cancer · Cohort · Cohort study · Confidence interval · Hazard ratio · Physical therapy · Proportional hazards model · Cancer survivorship and care · Demography · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers · Internal Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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