Study Hopes to Provide Answers to Chemo Fog
March 20, 2008
It’s a life-saving therapy, but scientists are learning that a persistent problem surfaces in many chemotherapy patients. The problem is chemo brain or chemo fog. Researchers say as many as 30 percent of chemotherapy patients suffer from chemo fog causing mild to moderate cognitive brain impairment. With the help of funding from well-known cancer survivor and athlete Lance Armstrong, researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, have started the first-ever study hoping to clear some chemo fog. Barb Cramer has the story…
Click here to see video