Is there really such a thing as chemo brain? - chemo fog
The mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, but we are not sure whether the type yet.Docs still running tests, but he started chemotherapy and radiation. You have me, "chemo brain" chemo fog it.She name a few, or have difficulty concentrating itself, it is often confused lathargic.Is this a polite way of saying that the cancer is gone or hurt your brain is doing chemo brain at the moment? Any help would be very appreciated.thanx!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Chemo Fog Is There Really Such A Thing As Chemo Brain?
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Julie Gralow, MD: Good question! Chemo-brain is another common complaint. What we are really talking about a lack of clarity in dealing with things, memory problems, without forgetting where you put your keys, and so on. It is documented that women in the chemotherapy of changes in perception. After completion of chemotherapy, usually improves significantly over time. However, some studies suggest that even a year later, you may be able to detect small changes.
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No, chemo brain does not mean that the brain is distributed. I think it is, but it is the debate on this issue. There are a lot of stress in cancer treatment and side effects, it is difficult to sleep deeply. Lethargy can be due to side effects and so I spent my days in bed and asleep during a conversation. It was hard to concentrate on and forget the words, even simple words.
I am a few years, and I think I'm totally back to normal.
Chemo-brain does not mean that the cancer has spread to the brain. It is only a term used to concentrate the symptoms as mild memory loss, confusion, inability to agree on things, etc., describe
There is much debate about the fact that the brain is provided by the chemotherapy, but many cancer patients will tell you. The chemo has definitely make me more forgetful and terribly difficult to focus on something too long. Sometimes I'll have a conversation with someone, and then my mind went elsewhere and I have no idea what the other says. It's just a side effect of chemotherapy, probably associated with fatigue.
All the best for your mother
Chemotherapy is a poison. It poisons to kill the entire body to cancer. This could certainly be a big influence on how a person acts and thinks. I do not know why doctors are not in a position to say what kind of cancer, whether it has already started chemotherapy. It's weird. My grandmother died of pancreatic cancer and we decided not to proceed with chemotherapy, since she was 80 years. She began to affect the acting very confused and the child progressed at the end of his days, and the doctors said the cancer because the brain can lead to confusion and madness. Maybe one or two of these factors.
mild memory loss and concentration problems of chemo-brain is not. my friend is diagnosed with cancer from 08 August and completed treatment, in 09 February, and always aware that you miss the little things, like names and dates more easily than usual. Chemotherapy was directly in the brain where) it (despite that the cancer was in the abdomen, such as chemo brain could do worse than if the chemotherapy is administered intravenously.
I think the side effects of radiation.
Radiation feels much havoc on the body and the brain can also be made. I do not think it means the cancer has evolved to the brain metastases. Ask your doctor for a definitive answer.
Good luck to you and your mother wishes you a lot =]
No treatment is their style.
This is part of a report that was in the news about the chemo brain. The whole story is too long to put here, but it exists and is now recognized by doctors
Chemo Brain
For many years, are cancer survivors are concerned, jokes about, and previously by the mental clouding, have been frustrated during and after chemotherapy. We do not know the exact cause, but the mental fog known as chemo brain. The patients have chemo brain noticed for a while but only recently have studies could begin to explain carried out.
Research has shown that some anticancer drugs can actually cause changes in the brain. Imaging studies have shown that some patients, parts of the brain concerned with memory, planning, implementing ideas into action, to control thought processes and behavior, and is inhibited, but are smaller after chemotherapy.
Some people claim that these symptoms are before starting treatment. Others report that, although they undergo chemotherapy. Others noted the problem that you will receive a hormone treatment.While the concept of chemo brain is not perfectly accurate, but what most people call it today.
Although the brain is recovering normally in the course of time not worry sometimes vague mental changes warning cancer patients real, imagined. These changes may cause can not go to school, work or social activities, or to both mental effort required to do so to return. Impact on daily activities and the need for further research.
What is the brain of chemotherapy?
These are just some examples of what the patient as a "chemo-brain:
• forgetting things that are normally not difficult to remember, blackouts
• difficulty in concentrating, can not concentrate on what they do
• Difficulties recall details such as names, dates, and sometimes big events
• Difficulty of several tasks such as answering the phone while cooking, without making the least capable of more than one thing at a time
• Taking more time to finish things slow reflection and transformation
• difficulties frequently used words to remembercan not finish a sentence, because you can not find the right words
For some people, these symptoms appear quickly and last only a short time, while others gentle, long-term psychological changes. Usually patients notice changes are very subtle and others around them did not notice any change at all. However, people who have problems to understand the differences in their thinking. Many people do not tell the team doctor about this problem until it affects their daily lives.
Doctors and researchers on chemo brain as "mild cognitive impairment" and define it as unable to remember certain things and find it difficult to learn certain tasks or new skills.
Chemotherapy is the real brain?
Yes, the brain of chemotherapy real, but the cause is unknown. How often is the case, the cause and what can be done is to prevent it, is also unknown.
Brain imaging has had not been treated changes in brain activity in cancer survivors with chemotherapy compared to the receiving chemotherapy. These changesScans in 5 to 10 years after treatment stopped. Chemo-brain can be caused by one or a combination of factors:
• The cancer itself
• Chemotherapy
• Other medications used for treatment (eg anti-nausea and pain)
• Patient age
• Stress
• low blood counts
• insomnia
• Infection
• Depression
• tiredness (fatigue)
• Hormonal changes
• Anxiety
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