Income in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

Little is known about the impact of childhood cancer on the personal income of survivors. We compared income between survivors and siblings, and determined factors associated with income. As part of the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS), a questionnaire was sent to survivors, aged ≥18 ye...

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Published in:PloS one 2016-05, Vol.11 (5), p.e0155546-e0155546
Main Authors: Wengenroth, Laura, Sommer, Grit, Schindler, Matthias, Spycher, Ben D, von der Weid, Nicolas X, Stutz-Grunder, Eveline, Michel, Gisela, Kuehni, Claudia E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Age of Onset
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Bone tumors
Cancer
Cancer therapies
Care and treatment
Central nervous system
Child
Childhood
Childhood cancer
Children
Data processing
Demographics
Diagnosis
Diagnostic systems
Education
Educational Status
Employment - economics
Employment - statistics & numerical data
Female
Health aspects
Health care
Health risk assessment
Hematology
Humans
Income
Income - statistics & numerical data
Irradiation
Leukemia
Lymphoma
Lymphomas
Male
Medical diagnosis
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Migration
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Neoplasms - rehabilitation
Nervous system
Net income
Oncology
Pediatrics
People and Places
Personal income
Preventive medicine
Questionnaires
Regression analysis
Secondary education
Siblings
Skull
Social Sciences
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic Factors
Stem cell transplantation
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survivors - statistics & numerical data
Switzerland - epidemiology
Tumors
Working hours
Young Adult
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Summary:Little is known about the impact of childhood cancer on the personal income of survivors. We compared income between survivors and siblings, and determined factors associated with income. As part of the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS), a questionnaire was sent to survivors, aged ≥18 years, registered in the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (SCCR), diagnosed at age
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0155546