Rethinking Chemo Brain

While we often hear and read the terms chemo brain and chemo fog, especially in the news, in reality, these terms are simply not 

though, worth pointing out that a substantial body of evidence suggests that chemotherapy, administered with or without anti-hor-monal cancer therapies, is responsible for at least a part of the post-chemo brain syndrome. 

Your oncologist tells you that chemotherapy does not cause cognitive impairment and then presents his or her reasoning. 

Asignificantnumber of people already suffers from cognitive impairment before starting chemotherapy. So why blame the chemo  

It is true, of course, that people can exhibit memory or other cognitive problems before they start systemic chemotherapy. Jeffrey S. Wefel, Ph.D., at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and his colleagues found this to be the case in the first-published 

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