Experts say time to get serious about what causes ‘chemobrain’
At some point in their treatment for cancer, somewhere between 17 percent and 75 percent of patients with malignancies that don’t affect the central nervous system report the sensation that a mental fog has set in.
For months or years after their hair has grown back, the exhaustion has lifted and the medical appointments taper off, the “new normal” for these patients includes problems with concentration, word-finding, short-term memory and multitasking.
Their doctors nod their heads knowingly: It’s “chemobrain,” they report.
Among the nation’s roughly 15.