I love my job, and I suppose I never would have had my job or met my colleagues if cancer hadn’t happened. I think it’s a great charity and a great project that I work for so that’s a massive positive.”
– Trish, cancer survivor.
Work has many benefits. Not only does it improve your wealth and material standing, but it impacts on sense of identity and social status. Unemployment is associated with worse physical and mental health and greater health services utilisation. Work after illness promotes recovery and rehabilitation, improves quality of life and wellbeing and reduces long term disability.
Work after cancer carries with it similar benefits – better income, better social connection, sense of identity and meaning.