Cancer and its treatments can affect a person’s ability to work and study. This can cause social and financial stress and worries for individuals, families and carers.
Information for cancer survivors and their families
- Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre (ACSC) fact sheet: Dealing with money, work and study (practical issues)
- Cancer Council Victoria booklet: Cancer, work and you
- Cancer Australia website: Work after cancer: A guide for people diagnosed with cancer, health care providers and employers
- Celia Marston (occupational therapist) online presentation: Returning to work for cancer survivors
- Victorian adolescent and adult cancer services: Thinking ahead: your guide to school study and work
- Flinders University and Cancer Australia website: Work After Cancer
Guidance documents
If you would like to advise of any relevant guidelines or provide feedback please email, ACSC
Additional information for health professionals
- Flinders University and Cancer Australia website: Work After Cancer
If you would like to advise of any relevant projects or provide feedback please email, ACSC
Projects
- Return to work in survivors of HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer. MD research project (The University of Melbourne) (complete)
Contact: Karolina Lisy, contact email: [email protected]
- Investigation of occupational therapists' involvement in return to work interventions for cancer survivors in (Australia) (completed)
Contact: Celia Marston, contact email [email protected]
If you would like to advise of any relevant projects or provide feedback please email, ACSC
Clinical services at Peter Mac Parkville
The following services are available to patients of Peter Mac, Parkville. If you are treated elsewhere, please speak with your oncology team, as you may have different clinical service options.
- Occupational therapy services Occupational therapists can help you improve your independence, safety, comfort, wellbeing and quality of life.
Other clinical services in the Parkville precinct
The following services are available to patients of the Parkville precinct (Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Women’s Hospital). Peter Mac is also part of the Parkville precinct, with services listed separately, above. If you are treated elsewhere, please speak with your oncology team, as you may have different clinical service options.
- Royal Park rehabilitation service for cancer survivors This service offers an individualised, patient-centred and team approach to optimise function and quality of life.
