Chemotherapy patients’ quality of life suffers long after treatment

‘Studies show that the stress of cancer treatment, particularly chemotherapy, can lead to cognitive decline that hampers survivors’ quality of life even after treatment has ended.
It is well established that cancer treatments can lead to low-grade cognitive decline, often manifesting as memory loss, attention problems and decreased verbal fluency. These problems are popularly known as “chemo brain.”
In order to evaluate the degree to which “chemo brain” negatively affects cancer patients after treatment, researchers at the University of Missouri conducted a study on women who had received chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. During the year following the conclusion of chemotherapy, the women were tested three times to evaluate neuropsychological function, self-reported cognitive difficulty, fatigue, oppression, social support sought and quality of life.’
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