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21CC podcast: staff with cancer want flexibility at work

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Jeannie Ambrose was given three to five years to live in 2019, but she continued working and studying, and has only recently retired (photo courtesy of Jeannie Ambrose)

A building control surveyor who kept working after being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2019 is calling on employers to be flexible with staff battling cancer and other long-term illnesses.

“I think it’s very easy when you hear the words ‘stage 4 cancer’ that you automatically visualise a cancer patient who’s very, very ill and perhaps can’t function very well, whereas actually many of us are functioning really well,” Jeannie Ambrose tells CIOB People editor Nadine Buddoo in the latest episode of the 21CC podcast to mark October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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