Cognitive functions of patients treated with chemotherapy: A comparative study

CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that, after controlling for anxiety and depression symptoms, patients treated with chemotherapy have significantly poorer outcomes on the DSST and TMT-B than treatment-naïve cancer patients and healthy controls. However, when taking confounding factors into account, the difference only persisted between patients undergoing chemotherapy and healthy controls. These findings are in favor of a multifactor cognitive impairment in patients with cancer partially related to chemotherapeutic treatment.PMID:38040507 | DOI:10.1016/j.encep.2023.10.001

Source: L Encephale - December 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rami Bou Khalil Fady Haddad Colin Charbel Cordahi Dimitri Fiani Jean-Marie Moukarzel Yara Chamoun Hampig Raphael Kourie Sami Richa Joseph Kattan Source Type: research