NEWS BITS
1.Chemotherapy for Cancer Leads to Cognitive Deficits:-
Long term chemotherapy for cancers produce long term cognitive defects.
Many post menopausal women who underwent chemotherapeutic treatments for their breast cancers have complained of long term cognitive decline after he treatments.
The researches ask how long these deficits will lost.
But the treatments are improved life expectancy and mostly increase the survival rate.But the patients complained often about the suffer from loss of memory,loss of concentration,and inability to do multi tasks.
The condition is dubbed as 'Chemo Brain' or 'Chemo Fog'.
A news report publishes on 9th Aug 2016 by Newman this condition affects nearly about 17 to 50% of female breast cancer survivors.
A study conducted at University of Illinois and published in the journal of Behavioral Brain Research,set out to investigate the effects of chemo brain over a long periods of time.
Anthracycline based chemotherapy causes worse on verbal memory tasks.
