Chemotherapy and Post-traumatic Stress in the Causation of Cognitive Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients

Hermelink, Kerstin; Bühner, Markus; Sckopke, Philipp; Neufeld, Franziska; Kaste, Judith; Voigt, Varinka; Münzel, Karin; Wuerstlein, Rachel; Ditsch, Nina; Hellerhoff, Karin; Rjosk-Dendorfer, Dorothea; Braun, Michael; Edler von Koch, Franz; Härtl, Kristin; Hasmüller, Stephan; Bauerfeind, Ingo; Debus, Gerlinde; Herschbach, Peter; Mahner, Sven; Harbeck, Nadia

doi:10.1093/jnci/djx057

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Chemotherapy and Post-traumatic Stress in the Causation of Cognitive Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients

Published in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute • Mar 9, 2017

Authors:

Kerstin Hermelink

Markus Bühner

Philipp Sckopke

Abstract

Background: Cancer-related cognitive dysfunction has mostly been attributed to chemotherapy; this explanation, however, fails to account for cognitive dysfunction observed in chemotherapy-naïve patients. In a controlled, longitudinal, multisite study, we tested the hypothesis that cognitive function...

Subject

Cognition

Breast cancer

Medicine

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