Reclaim your brain!Yeah, chemo is hard on your brain. During treatment I used to joke, "This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" But after completing breast cancer treatment in 2009, I started exercising, added piano lessons and then enrolled in a competitive grad school program, taking on new brain challenges, exercising these mind muscles in the same manner that Lance Armstrong reclaimed his physical body after cancer and treatment, driving himself harder, winning races, proving that it is possible to do a 180 after cancer treatment. Be good to yourself, but take on new challenges.
HEALTH | May 04, 2011
Well: Chemo Brain May Last 5 Years or More
By TARA PARKER-POPE
"Chemo brain," the foggy thinking and forgetfulness that cancer patients often complain about after treatment, may last for five years or more for a sizable percentage of patients, new research shows. |
