The following report is current but the proposition that chemotherapy causes brain damage is not. it simply gives further credence to earlier reports on the dangers posed by chemotherapy in relation to various types of cancer, including PROSTATE CANCER. Is it any wonder that in the United States, the majority of oncologists, affirm that they would not personally receive chemotherapy if (or when) stricken with cancer?

Researchers Detail Chemotherapy’s Damage to the Brain
A commonly used chemotherapy drug causes healthy brain cells to die off long after treatment has ended and may be one of the underlying biological causes of the cognitive side effects – or “chemo brain” – that many cancer patients experience. That is the conclusion of a study published today in the Journal of Biology.

A team of researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Harvard Medical School have linked the widely used chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) to a progressing collapse of populations of stem cells and their progeny in the central nervous system.

Click here for the full article from the University of Rochester Medical Center:

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/news/story.cfm?id=1963

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