2023-05-09 17:21:44
Nine years after a cancer diagnosis, according to a study conducted by the University of Turin, 16% of patients have given up work. There is also an increase in female part-time work: from 14% to 16%. Hence the need to break down all those barriers that prevent cancer patients from returning to the working world. This is the objective of the Transformation project, this year in its second edition. Promoted by Europa Donna Italia, with the collaboration of the Human Age Institute Foundation, ManpowerGroup and Studio Fava & Associati, with the unconditional support of Pfizer, Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca, this year the initiative sees the entry of a new partner, the University of Turin. According to the promoters of the project – reads a note – the barriers are the non-adaptation of working hours to the needs of the therapies, work too physically or mentally demanding for the patient’s conditions, the lack of support from the employer and colleagues, other economic and psychological factors.
“Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer is always destabilizing – explains Rosanna D’Antona, president of Europa Donna Italia – both on a professional and family level. Work, or rather returning to work, represents, when possible, a motivating and proactive element in a treatment path: however, dealing with this specific context for patients is not always easy. The regulatory framework of our country is still fragmented and it is necessary not only to promote new contractual measures aimed at improving the quality of professional life, but also to support them in the paths of reintegration into the world of work, and it is precisely in this direction that we have pushed the second edition of the Transformation project”.
About 100 women from all over Italy took part in the first edition and 62 completed the course. The second edition, which started on 28 April with a workshop dedicated to the associations belonging to Europa Donna Italia – details the note – provides for the creation of a talent lab, an orientation path aimed at reintegrating into the world of work, entirely online, involving people from all over Italy. The process is developed through three main phases. The first is an overview of how to take action for an active job search: from the curriculum vitae to how to face the job interview, up to the search through the various channels. The second phase is dedicated to getting to know the person, analyzing expectations, skills and aspirations. Finally, the path includes a fundamental passage of knowledge of the law 68/99. Joining the project is simple, just click on the link below to start an ad hoc path that takes into account the unique stories of each patient, subject to availability:
The University of Turin – continues the note – conducted a 9-year study on over 2,600 survivors of malignant neoplasms, which shows the continuing incidence of oncological disease in returning to work even after recovery. As reported, after nine years from the diagnosis, the employment rate of individuals of both sexes shows a significant decrease, with a higher incidence for women who have quit their job more often than men (-16% against -15 %).
The study also shows an increase in part-time work for women with cancer experience over the 9 years considered (from 14% to 16%), while a reduction from 13% to 8.5% was recorded for the female control group, composed of healthy patients. In essence, the survey produced has highlighted how the oncological disease not only affects a person’s health, but also their working life. Over the years covered by the study, individuals of both sexes lost their jobs more often than healthy control groups, and cancer-experienced women dropped out of work significantly more often than control groups of both sexes. genders and male cancer survivors. Furthermore, significantly fewer women diagnosed with cancer worked full-time.
“We have always been committed to helping anyone who was, for various reasons, in a more fragile employment situation to get back into the world of work – says Anna Gionfriddo, president of the Human Age Institute Foundation and managing director of ManpowerGroup – And it is evident, as the research of the University of Turin, that the situation of those with cancer or who have just recovered is among the most fragile in the working scenario. For this reason we are proud to be alongside Europa Donna Italia in this project and to give our contribution to the creation of a path towards the world of work, which represents above all an opportunity for women to rediscover new energies and life goals affected by oncological disease”.
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