Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment: More Than a Side Effect of Chemotherapy — RN and Allied Health Lecture

Zev Nakamura, MD

Consult-Liaison Fellow, Department of Psychiatry
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lecture Description

Cancer can impair a patient’s ability to think and to remember. While this condition is often called ‘chemo-brain,’ cognitive impairment stemming from cancer affects patients who might not have had either chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Dr. Nakamura will review our latest understandings of this condition.

Lecture Objectives:

• Identify causes of cancer-related cognitive impairment.
• Discuss morbidity associated with cancer-related cognitive impairment.
• Describe evidence-based interventions for cancer-related cognitive impairment.