"Before she developed a breast tumor, Tara Cernacek assumed that anyone who was diagnosed with cancer would want to quit their job and stay home. But that all changed with her own diagnosis.
“Work was a saving grace for me,” Cernacek says. “It got me out of thinking about being sick. It made me feel productive. And it gave me the money for treatments.”
Cernacek isn’t alone. Nearly three out of four cancer patients and survivors say they want to stay with their jobs and feel that work helps with recovery, according to a recent survey conducted by Harris Poll. Like Cernacek, nearly two-thirds of survivors say that they needed to work through their treatment period to make it financially......."
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