Testicular cancer: Is chemotherapy associated with cognitive impairment?

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 182-183

  Zachariae, Robert ^a,b   Mehlsen, Mimi Yung ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TESTIS CANCER; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TESTIS TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953871653     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2011.29     Document Type: Article

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