Breast cancer and cognitive psychology

[anaklio]

The impact of physiological disease on mental health is often neglected. Thus a new paper by Quesnel et al. (2009) is much welcome. These authors investigated cognitive functioning in breast cancer patients. The authors concluded that chemotherapy has a specific negative effect on verbal fluency, that breast cancer treatment in general negatively affects verbal memory, but that other cognitive functions are well preserved. Hopefully, our treatments for mental conditions will improve as our treatments for physical conditions do.

[voodoo scientist]

That sounds very interesting. What's the title of the paper?

[anaklio]

Reference: Quesnel et al. (2009)
Title: Cognitive impairments associated with breast cancer treatments: results from a longitudinal study.
Journal: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
Date: July, 2009
Volume: 116
Issue: 1
Pages: 113-123.
Summary: These results suggest that chemotherapy has a specific negative effect on verbal fluency, that breast cancer treatment in general negatively affects verbal memory, but that other cognitive functions are well preserved.

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[Kallisti]

Hmm, does breast cancer treatment cause hormonal influences?

[matetC]

Anaklio’s information it sounds interesting about breast cancer. Nowadays, many breast cancer cases that many people suffered from that disease especially woman. Maybe because women has many estrogen than men that breast cancer cause from estrogen.