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Breast Cancer
Study Suggests a Possible Way to Offset Chemobrain Memory Loss
September 23rd, 2008
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University, researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. In the WVU researchers' study, published in the September issue of the journal Metabolic Brain Disease, rats were given the commonly used chemotherapy drugs adriamycin and cyclophosphamide. When on the drugs, rats trained to prefer a light room to a dark room forgot their training. "When animals are treated with chemotherapy drugs, they lose...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-09-23)
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