Good NYT article today on how Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion. Quotes:
- “Virtually all cancer survivors who have had toxic treatments like chemotherapy experience short-term memory loss and difficulty concentrating during and shortly afterward, experts say. But a vast majority improve. About 15 percent, or roughly 360,000 of the nation’s 2.4 million female breast cancer survivors, the group that has dominated research on cognitive side effects, remain distracted years later, according to some experts. And nobody knows what distinguishes this 15 percent.”
- “The central puzzle of chemo brain is [Read more…] about Chemo Brain: cognitive effects of chemotherapy