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Chemo Brain

While chemotherapy can be part of life-saving medical treatment for patients with cancer, it can create lingering side effects on one’s ability to think; such as trouble finding the right word to speak, or even difficulty with visuospatial skills and finding your way around. We’ll explore what Moffitt Cancer Center researchers found about the effects of “chemo brain” in a study of breast cancer survivors published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.