Chemotherapy may affect work status

Patients who undergo chemotherapy may be more likely to experience a change in their work status than patients who don't have chemo, a new study suggests. Researchers studied 3233 insured women, younger than 64 years old, and found that most continued to work during and after treatment. Only 6.6 percent of women had a change in employment status, such as leaving work, retiring, or going on long-term disability. But among those women, those who'd had chemo were twice as likely to experience an employment change as women who had undergone radiation alone.