Cancer and Careers: Help With Work During and After Cancer

Best For

People with cancer who are working, returning to work, changing jobs, job hunting, or trying to figure out what to tell an employer while navigating treatment and recovery.

What They Do

Cancer and Careers focuses on one of the most immediate practical questions after diagnosis: what happens to work? The organization provides free information, tools, coaching, publications, and educational programs for people trying to balance cancer treatment and recovery with employment, career decisions, workplace communication, and job searches.

How They Can Help

·       Guidance on working through treatment and returning to work.

·       Practical information on disclosure, workplace communication, boundaries, and discrimination.

·       Free online career coaching.

·       Free resume review for eligible job-seeking cancer survivors.

·       Job-search tools covering resumes, interviews, networking, LinkedIn, and career transitions.

·       Free conferences, webinars, publications, and educational resources on work and cancer.

Who It’s For

Cancer and Careers is for people with cancer across diagnoses who are navigating employment. That can mean staying in a current job, taking leave, returning after treatment, looking for new work, changing careers, or simply deciding how much to disclose.

Why This Resource Matters

Work is not a side issue for most adults with cancer. It is income, health insurance, identity, routine, and often the thing treatment immediately disrupts. Cancer and Careers specializes in that collision and gives people practical tools for managing it.

How to Get Help

Start with the Where to Start, Working Through Treatment, or Looking for Work sections of the website, depending on your situation. If you need individualized career guidance, explore the free Online Career Coaching Center and Resume Review Service.