A substantial minority of survivors report foggy thinking and memory problems for years after chemotherapy, limiting work and daily life, and no funded service exists for it. Small trials of computerised cognitive training, strategy training and exercise show benefit; a definitive multi-arm trial with a functional endpoint would establish or refute a treatable condition.
Cancer-related cognitive impairment affects a substantial minority of survivors and limits work and daily function. Small trials of computerised cognitive training, cognitive-behavioural strategy training, and exercise show benefit on self-reported and some objective measures, but there is no standard of care and no funded service. A definitive multi-arm trial comparing the leading approaches, with a functional primary endpoint, would establish or refute a treatable condition.
Shares Thinking and memory after cancer treatment: what is measurable, and what helps, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares No treatment restores the thinking that cancer treatment takes, Thinking and memory after cancer treatment: what is measurable, and what helps, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Exercise & lifestyle oncology, Survivorship and late effects are neglected.
Shares No treatment restores the thinking that cancer treatment takes, Thinking and memory after cancer treatment: what is measurable, and what helps, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Exercise & lifestyle oncology, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Structured exercise prescribed like a drug in all curative-intent cancer care, Exercise & lifestyle oncology, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares No treatment restores the thinking that cancer treatment takes, Thinking and memory after cancer treatment: what is measurable, and what helps, Survivorship and late effects are neglected, Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued.
Shares Thinking and memory after cancer treatment: what is measurable, and what helps, Cancer rehabilitation: the discipline that puts function back, Survivorship and late effects are neglected.