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Chemotherapy Causes Severe Neural Damage Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Cancer Research   
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Cancer treatment with chemotherapeutic agents is often associated with delayed adverse neurological consequences - an occurrence often referred to as "chemobrain" - that may compromise the quality of life of a proportion of cancer survivors. Now, new research demonstrates that treatment with a single chemotherapeutic agent, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), by itself is sufficient to cause a syndrome of delayed degeneration in the central nervous system (CNS). (source: sciencedaily.com)
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