ArticleBMC cancer2025
The mortality rate of people with cancer judged to have a limited life expectancy by physicians performing work disability assessments in the Netherlands: a retrospective cohort study.
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purposeThere is a lack of consensus among physicians working in the field of disability assessment about the definition of a limited life expectancy. The aim of this study was to describe the mortality rate of employees with cancer who were judged to have a limited life expectancy and to study whether factors are associated with mortality.
methodsA retrospective cohort study, including 534 Dutch employees with a diagnosis of cancer who were granted full work disability pension after being judged by physicians working in the field of disability assessment as having a limited life expectancy. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the one- and two-year mortality rates. Factors potentially associated with mortality were studied using univariate logistic regression analysis.
resultsThe mortality rates one and two years after the disability assessment were 46% (n = 247) and 63% (n = 339), respectively. We did not observe a statistically significant association between age at death or between sex and death after one year, but after two years the probability of death was greater among men. Both one and two-years after the disability assessment, the probability of dying was greater among employees diagnosed with a digestive type of cancer, compared to employees diagnosed with a urogenital type of cancer.
conclusionsApproximately six in ten people died within two years of their work disability assessment. In addition to the type of cancer, no factors in this study were associated with mortality. Physicians should be supported in making evidence-based assessments of life expectancy in patients with cancer.
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