Breast Cancer Itself May Cause 'Brain Fog'

Although chemotherapy makes it worse, a small study suggested.

Compared with 18 women with no breast cancer history, 19 who had the disease but were not treated with chemotherapy showed significant deficits in prefrontal and premotor cortex activation, reported Shelli R. Kesler, PhD, of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and colleagues.

Another 25 breast cancer survivors who had received chemotherapy showed even greater impairments, with the most pronounced effects in the left caudal lateral prefrontal cortex, the researchers indicated in the November issue of Archives of Neurology.

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