Stress And How Breast Cancer Patients Manage It Can Affect Brain Function Even Before Chemotherapy Begins

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Also Included In: Depression;  Anxiety / Stress
Article Date: 13 Apr 2012 1:00 PDT</p>

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<p>Women undergoing diagnosis for breast cancer can knowledge cognitive declines, such as decreased written fluency or detriment of memory and attention. Often gifted by patients undergoing chemotherapy, a declines have turn famous as chemo brain. However, a health clergyman during a University of Missouri says chemo brain isnt always to blame.</p>

<p>Stephanie Reid-Arndt, an associate highbrow and chair of a Health Psychology Department in a MU School of Health Professions, found that women who had undergone medicine for breast cancer though who had not nonetheless perceived chemotherapy or hormone-replacement therapy gifted identical cognitive deficits as women undergoi...