Jun Mao, Chief of Integrative Medicine Services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, shared on LinkedIn:
“October is breast cancer awareness month. Just because treatment has finished doesn’t mean survivors don’t have lingering issues. ‘Brain fog‘ is a major issue among breast cancer survivors.
In this new paper, our team demonstrated that cumulative symptom burden is associated with greater perceived cognitive impairment but not objective cognitive function highlighting that adequately addressing physical and psychological symptoms will be critical to ‘lifting the brain fog’.
Even as many breast cancer survivors have normal objective cognitive test results, the extra effort and labor of doing these tasks can be daunting during survivorship and should not be dismissed.”
Title: Association between cumulative symptom burden and cognitive impairment among breast cancer survivors: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Xiaotong Li, Kaitlin Lampson, Kevin T. Liou, Yuelin Li, Susan Q. Li, Tim Ahles, James Root, Jun J. Mao.
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