• your employer dismisses you because of your illness
   

• your employer does not pay you what you are entitled to
   

• your employer discriminates against you in any way because of your illness. Under the Disability Discrimination Order (2006), cancer patients are defined as disabled from the point of diagnosis.

For more advice on your employment rights, contact Macmillan for a copy of Working through Cancer, their guide for employees, or contact your local Citizen’s Advice Bureau (details will be in the phone book or see www.citizensadvice.org.uk).