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In the second and third year after the year of the diagnosis, the earnings gap between cancer survivors and those in the comparison group narrows, particularly when cancer survivors continue to work after the cancer diagnosis. [...] The study findings also suggest that, in the long run, the negative effect of cancer on the employment status for cancer survivors diagnosed at ages younger than the average age in the cancer sample, 48 years, is smaller than the average effect for the cancer sample as a whole. [...] The study specifically focuses on the labour market outcomes of working-age cancer survivors with a strong attachment to the labour market prior to the diagnosis and the effects of cancer on the survivors' labour market outcomes approximately one to four years from the time of the cancer diagnosis. [...] The estimates of the cancer effect in the model measure the average effects of cancer on the outcome variables for cancer survivors.8 2.2 Unobservable confounding factors affecting cancer and labour market outcomes Another concern is the correlation between cancer incidence and individuals' unobservable characteristics-this is also known as 'selection-on-unobservables' in the evaluation literature [...] Finally, based on their labour market attachment prior to the cancer diagnosis, the cancer sample is restricted to individuals who work in the year of cancer diagnosis (T) and two previous years (T -1 and T - 2 ) since the focus of the study is on the effects of cancer on labour market outcomes for those with a strong labour market attachment prior to the cancer diagnosis.19 More details on the la.