NEW CALL - 30/05/14

PROPOSAL COORDINATION

Angela de Boer, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam

José Peixoto Caldas, University of Porto - FCPE

Lígia Moreira Almeida, University of Porto - FPCE

MONOGRAPHIC TITLE

Cancer and Work

CONTENTS OF INTEREST

Each year in Europe, 3.2 million new cancer patients are diagnosed including 1.6 million patients of working age. The number of cancer survivors in Europe is rapidly growing due to improved treatment and ageing population. Many cancer survivors are at risk for unemployment which greatly affects their quality of life and financial situation.

Research on cancer and work is therefore of great importance but scattered over Europe and lacking appropriate dissemination. Moreover, interventions supporting employment of cancer survivors are urgently required but scarcely developed. This journal issue aims to disseminate European knowledge on: 1) prognostic factors of unemployment in cancer survivors including gender- and country-specific differences; 2) work-related costs of survivorship for both patients and society; 3)the role of employers; and 4) development and evaluation of innovative interdisciplinary interventions which effectively support employment. It also seeks to disseminate current research and best practices in European and Ibero-American settings.