Episodic Memory and Recollection Network Disruptions Following Chemotherapy Treatment in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Review of Neuroimaging Findings

• Published in: Cancers Vol. 14; no. 19; p. 4752
• Main Authors: Bradley-Garcia, Meenakshie, Winocur, Gordon, Sekeres, Melanie J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 29.09.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Breast cancer; Cancer; Cancer survivors; Cancer therapies; Care and treatment; Chemotherapy; Cognitive ability; Complications and side effects; Episodic memory; Health aspects; Hippocampus; Information processing; Long term memory; Medical imaging; Memory; Neurogenesis; Neuroimaging; Neurotoxicity; Oxidative stress; Physiology; Psychological aspects; Quality of life; Review; Reviews; Structure-function relationships; Canada; medial temporal lobe; hippocampus; memory loss; breast cancer; cognitive impairment; chemotherapy; neuroimaging

Long-term memory disturbances are amongst the most common and disruptive cognitive symptoms experienced by breast cancer survivors following chemotherapy. To date, most clinical assessments of long-term memory dysfunction in breast cancer survivors have utilized basic verbal and visual memory tasks...