Acute and late onset cognitive dysfunction associated with chemotherapy in women with breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3348-3356

  Wefel, Jeffrey S ^a   Saleeba, Angele K ^a   Buzdar, Aman U ^a   Meyers, Christina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cognition disorders; Memory; Neuropsychological tests; Systemic chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEARNING DISORDER; LEUKEMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD; NEUROPATHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954898295     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25098     Document Type: Article

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