Article of the month

Original Article 500

Longitudinal analysis of factors influencing return to work after breast cancer treatment among public employees in São Paulo

                    Marcelo Antonini; corresponding Author

 

The return to work is a complex and multifactorial issue, as it involves situations related to the patient, the disease, and the work environment. Few national studies have published experiences related to this matter. These studies were generally conducted in Public Hospitals with a population linked to the SUS (Unified Health System).

Fortunately, we are entering our 36th year of the journal. Likewise, we have reached 500 original articles with this article.  

This article is a gift to our readers, given its national and global uniqueness. It highlights the factors associated with the return to work in women with breast cancer who work for the State Government of São Paulo. These patients are civil servants with stable jobs, a fact that leads to a high rate of return, as well as presenting facilitators for their return and, eventually, a change of role.

Of the 300 women evaluated, the return to work improved their quality of life, a fact that reinforces the need for the reintegration of these patients after breast cancer.

The main author is Marcelo Antonini, Mastologist, MD, PhD. He works at “Hospital do Servidor Publico Estadual do Estado de São Paulo”, a place that provided the patients for the study. He has 73 publications, having a H-factor 10 at Google Scholar and H7 at Web-of-Science. Now he is a Mastology Co-editor. 

Congratulations to the authors. This article is a gift (https://mastology.org/journal/article/view/1918) to our readers.

To the readers, when discussing the topic of return to work, this should be a reference article.

René Aloisio da Costa Vieira

Editor-in-Chief Mastology