NCCN Policy Summit: Cancer Care in the Workplace: Building a 21st Century Workplace for Patients, Survivors, and Caretakers

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Victoria Hood National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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Lindsey Bandini National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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Taneal Carter National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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Alyssa Schatz National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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John Sweetenham Southwestern Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dallas, Texas

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Warren Smedley The Kinetix Group Oncology, New York, New York

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Joanna Fawzy Morales Triage Cancer, Chicago, Illinois

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Rebecca V. Nellis Cancer and Careers

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Randy A. Jones University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Lynn Zonakis Zonakis Consulting, Sedona, Arizona

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Robert W. Carlson National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania

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Volume/Issue:
Volume 21: Issue 5
Online Publication Date:
May 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2023.7007
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Survival rates for people with cancer and quality of life for survivors have increased significantly as a result of innovations in cancer treatment, improvements in early detection, and improved healthcare access. In the United States, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. As more cancer survivors and patients remain in the workforce, employers must evaluate how they can adjust workplace policies to meet employee and business needs. Unfortunately, many people still encounter barriers to remaining in the workplace following a cancer diagnosis for themselves or a loved one. In an effort to explore the impacts of contemporary employment policies on patients with cancer, cancer survivors, and caregivers, NCCN hosted the Policy Summit “Cancer Care in the Workplace: Building a 21st Century Workplace for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Caretakers” on June 17, 2022. This hybrid event, through keynotes and multistakeholder panel discussions, explored issues regarding employer benefit design, policy solutions, current best and promising practices for return to work, and how these issues impact treatment, survivorship, and caregiving in the cancer community.

Submitted December 6, 2022; final revision received January 17, 2023; accepted for publication February 1, 2023.

Disclosures: The authors have disclosed that they have no financial interests, arrangements, affiliations, or commercial interests with the manufacturers of any products discussed in this article or their competitors. V. Hood, L. Bandini, T. Carter, A. Schatz, and R.W. Carlson are employed by NCCN.

Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Supported by: 2seventy bio; ADC Therapeutics; AmerisourceBergen; Astellas; AstraZeneca, BeiGene Ltd.; Bluebird Bio; Bristol Myers Squibb; Eisai Inc.; EMD Serono; (Merck KGaA); EQRx; Exelixis; Foundation Medicine, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline; Helsinn Healthcare; Heron; Incyte Corporation; Janssen Oncology; Kite Pharma, Lilly; Merck & Co. (Merck Sharp & Dohme); MorphoSys; Regeneron; Sanofi Genzyme; and Sun Pharma.

This activity was made possible by Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie Company.

Correspondence: Victoria Hood, MPP, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 3025 Chemical Road, Suite 100, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. Email: hood@nccn.org
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1540-1405
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1540-1413
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network
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Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2023
Page Numbers:
6
Article Category:
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Received:
06 Dec 2022
Accepted:
01 Feb 2023
Print Publication Date:
01 May 2023
Online Publication Date:
May 2023

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