Psychosocial
Legal Difficulties and Discrimination
Adult survivors of childhood cancers who have neurocognitive and psychosocial difficulties, are at increased risk of legal difficulties and discrimination.
- Legal difficulties include violations of an individual’s legal or human rights.
- Discrimination is the violation of an individual’s human rights and occurs when someone is treated differently and poorly because of reasons such as a physical or mental disability or their marital or family status.
Legal difficulties and discrimination reported by adult survivors of childhood cancer in British Columbia, Canada, relate to 46:
- Education
- Employment - finding employment, discrimination at work, and unfair termination of employment
- Difficulty acquiring life, health, or disability insurance
Among long-term survivors of childhood cancers in British Columbia, 40% experienced legal difficulties, most commonly as workplace discrimination.
Brain tumour survivors and those who received CNS radiation therapy are at highest risk for legal difficulties and discrimination.
Adult survivors of childhood cancer who have experienced legal difficulties report lower quality of life than those who have not had legal difficulties.
Link:
United States: Cancer Legal Resource Center
