TY - JOUR AU - Tamminga, Sietske J. AU - de Boer, Angela GEM AU - Verbeek, Jos HAM AU - Taskila, Taina AU - Frings-Dresen, Monique HW PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07/01 TI - Enhancing return-to-work in cancer patients, development of an intervention and design of a randomised controlled trial JO - BMC Cancer SP - 345 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Compared to healthy controls, cancer patients have a higher risk of unemployment, which has negative social and economic impacts on the patients and on society at large. Therefore, return-to-work of cancer patients needs to be improved by way of an intervention. The objective is to describe the development and content of a work-directed intervention to enhance return-to-work in cancer patients and to explain the study design used for evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-345 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-10-345 ID - Tamminga2010 ER -