Chemo Fog Cancer Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Raffa, Robert B. (Editor), Tallarida, Ronald J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 678
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cancer Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6306-2

The editors of this book are professors who are engaged in research on areas that compromise the total healing of body and mind in this patient population. One particular component of the need for survivor care is the memory problems and cognitive deficits experienced by some. The condition has been...

Table of Contents:

• Short Introduction and History
• Patients Perspective
• Oncology Nurses Perspective
• Oncology Pharmacists Perspective
• The Impact of Chemo Brain on the Patient with a High Grade Glioma
• Neurocognitive Efects of Childhood Cancer Treatment
• The Economic Burden
• Designing Conceptual ModelBased Research in ChemotherapyRelated Changes in Cognitive Function
• Neuropsychologic Testing for ChemotherapyRelated Cognitive Impairment
• Imaging as a Means of Studying ChemotherapyRelated Cognitive Impairment
• Chemotherapy Associated Central Nervous System Damage
• Is Systemic AntiCancer Therapy Neurotoxic? Does Chemo Brain Exist? And Should We Rename It?
• Evaluation of Multiple Neurotoxic Outcomes in Cancer Chemotherapy
• ChemotherapyRelated Visual System Toxicity
• The Possible Role of Cytokines in ChemotherapyInduced Cognitive Deficits
• Pharmacokinetics of AntiCancer Drugs Used in Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
• Combination Analysis
• Animal Models
• Chemo Brain (Chemo Fog) as a Potential Side Efect of Doxorubicin Administration: Role of CytokineInduced, Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress in Cognitive Dysfunction
• Efects of 5FU
• Future Directions.