People Living with Cancer

Relaxation Techniques and Mind/Body Practices:

How They Can Help You Cope With Cancer
Cancer and its treatment can be stressful for people with cancer and their caregivers. Relaxation techniques and other mind/body practices can help calm your mind and sharpen your ability to focus. These techniques offer creative ways to reduce stress caused by cancer and to maintain inner peace. For [...]

Combating Chemobrain:

Keeping Your Memory Sharp
Many people going through cancer treatment notice changes in their memory and thinking abilities. Coping with symptoms of chemobrain involves finding ways to help you remember things better, and doing activities that keep your memory sharp. Below is a list of tips for combating chemobrain. Check off the ones that you think [...]

Chemobrain : Improving Your Concentration:

Three Key Steps
Concentration is your ability to work without letting people, feelings or activities get in the way. There are three steps to developing your concentration abilities:
• Establishing concentration
• Increasing concentration
• Developing the concentration habit
This fact sheet provides tips on how to develop each of these abilities.
ESTABLISHING CONCENTRATION
Be aware of external distractions and separate yourself [...]

Doctor, Can We Talk About Chemobrain?

CancerCare Chemobrain Information Series
Talking to your doctor can be difficult, especially about symptoms of chemobrain. Not all health care professionals know how to evaluate chemobrain, and many may be unfamiliar with the resources that are available to help. If you have problems with memory and attention, or other difficulties related to chemobrain, speaking with your [...]

Cognitive Problems After Chemotherapy

CancerCare Chemobrain Information Series
Problems with memory and concentration, along with a general feeling of not functioning mentally as well as usual, are informally referred to by patients as chemobrain.  Health care professionals call these symptoms cognitive deficits, from the word cognition, which means thought, and the word deficit, which means falling short of.
If you are [...]

Coping With Chemo Brain

New York Times
August 11, 2009, 10:46 am
By Tara Parker-Pope

Last week, my colleague Jane Brody explored the new scientific thinking about “chemo brain,” the foggy thinking and forgetfulness that afflicts many cancer patients after treatment. This week, Jane offers advice for patients in “Taking Steps to Cope With Chemo Brain.”
For years, patient complaints about the cognitive [...]

Taking Steps to Cope With Chemo Brain

By JANE E. BRODY
New York Times
Published: August 10, 2009
Cancer can be a life-changing experience, both physically and mentally. And when cancer treatment delivers a knockout punch to cognitive abilities, patients with the resulting “chemo brain” often face major challenges trying to get their lives back on track.

But those who recognize the cognitive effects of [...]