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Chemo Over, But You’re Forgetting Things? You May Have “Chemo-Brain”
It’s not all in your head. If you find it hard to focus, remember things, retrieve words, analyze difficult data, or multi-task like you used to before cancer treatment, you may have chemo-brain.
Doctors used to shrug off patient complaints about foggy thinking and forgetfulness, but finally science is catching up with what patients have long known. Just like chemotherapy can cause problems in the rest of the body, it can do so in the brain, as well, and these problems can last long after treatment is over.
“When you are an accountant and you can only fumble with numbers,” says survivor Jenise, “retirement was the only option….[I]t would have helped if there had been more awareness of what was happening to my brain along with all the other physical ailments overwhelming my body.” (more…)
