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Little Evidence That Breast Cancer Diagnosis Leads to Employment Discrimination, Study Concludes
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Women diagnosed with breast cancer are no more likely than women in the general population to experience discrimination at work, according to a new study in the December 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Despite legislation in Canada and other countries to protect workers from
discrimination based on disability or health state, some cancer survivors have
reported