Workplace Wellbeing: We need policies that support workers through a cancer diagnosis

A cancer diagnosis can significantly affect a person’s career, highlighting the need for workplace policies that support employees and employers

Patricia Thomas, a cancer survivor from Stepaside in Dublin. Picture: Moya Nolan.

“You have cancer." Approximately 44,000 people in Ireland hear these devastating words every year, and one in two of us can expect to hear them in our lifetimes.

That’s according to the Irish Cancer Society’s advocacy officer Suzanne Dowd, who warns that cancer can impact many people’s careers.