Intrinsic brain activity changes associated with adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer: a pilot longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Older cancer patients are at increased risk of cancer-related cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to assess the alterations in intrinsic brain activity associated with adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer.

Methods

Chemotherapy treatment (CT) group included sixteen women aged ≥ 60 years (range 60-82 years) with stage I-III breast cancers, who underwent both resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and neuropsychological testing with NIH Toolbox for Cognition before adjuvant chemotherapy, at time point 1 (TP1), and again within 1 month after completing chemotherapy, at time point 2 (TP2). Fourteen age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) underwent the same assessments at matched intervals. Three voxel-wise rs-fM

SUBMITTER: Chen BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551279 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature