Cognitive effects of chemotherapy and/or cranial irradiation in adults

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 141-156

  Welzel, Grit ^a,c   Steinvorth, Sarah ^b   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Cognitive functions; Neuropsychology; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; DIAZIQUONE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; TAMOXIFEN; THIOTEPA; VINCRISTINE; WARFARIN;

AMNESIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LUNG CANCER; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL IRRADIATION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; STANDARD; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 17044366253     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1351-5     Document Type: Review

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