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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer study results from Indiana University, Medical Department described
June 18th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Neuropsychologist, "The cognitive function of breast cancer survivors (BC, n = 52) and individually matched healthy controls (n = 52) was compared on a battery of sensitive neuropsychological tests." "The BC group endorsed significantly higher levels of subjective memory loss and scored significantly worse than controls on learning and delayed recall indices from the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT). Defining clinically significant impairment as scores at or below the 7th percentile of the control group, the rate of cognitive impairment in the BC sample was 17% for total learning on the AVLT,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-18)
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