Disability pension among gynaecological cancer survivors with or without radiation-induced survivorship syndromes

• Published in: Journal of cancer survivorship Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 834 - 843
• Main Authors: Baloch, Adnan Noor, Hagberg, Mats, Thomée, Sara, Steineck, Gunnar, Sandén, Helena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Blood; Cancer; Cancer and Oncology; Cancer och onkologi; Cancer survivor; Cancer therapies; Confidence intervals; Disability pension; Disability pensions; Disorders; Environmental Health and Occupational Health; Faecal incontinence; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi; Gynecological cancer; Gynecology; Health Informatics; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Miljömedicin och yrkesmedicin; Oncology; Patients; Pelvis; Primary Care Medicine; Public Health; Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology; Quality of Life Research; Radiation; Radiation effects; Radiation therapy; Radiation-induced syndromes; Radiotherapy/adverse effects; Rehabilitation; Return to work; Risk; Risk assessment; Statistical analysis; Survival; Faecal incontinence; Radiation-induced syndromes; Disability pension; Cancer survivor; Radiotherapy/adverse effects; Return to work

Purpose Gynaecological cancer patients treated with external radiation therapy to the pelvis may face long-lasting and long-term gastrointestinal syndromes. The aim of this study was to assess the association between such radiation-induced survivorship syndromes and disability pension among gynaecol...