Mystery solved? Aussie study lifts fog on poor cognition in breast cancer survivors
The small study was the first to investigate cognitive and cerebrovascular function in women following breast cancer.
The brain fog phenomenon widely reported among breast cancer survivors had long eluded medical explanation.
But doctors are now one step closer to understanding the reduced cognition experienced by these patients, with landmark Australian research implicating cerebrovascular function.
Although theirs was a small study, senior author Dr Edward Bliss (PhD) from the University of Southern Queensland said it was the first to examine cerebral blood flow in breast cancer survivors.
“No-one has actually looked at brain blood vessel function … We have gone through and actually explored why brain blood vessel function can be reduced or if it was reduced in breast cancer patients,” he told the ABC.
