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Program: Cognitive Challenges After Hormone Therapy

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction LISTEN
  2. Hormonal Studies for Prostate Cancer LISTEN
  3. Impact of Testosterone on Hormonal Studies LISTEN
  4. Making Cancer Care Tolerable LISTEN
  5. “Chemo Brain” and Side Effects of Cancer Drugs LISTEN

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Andrew Schorr:

Although you frequently hear about the side effects of cancer treatment like nausea, you rarely hear about how these treatments, specifically hormone therapy for example for advanced prostate cancer, can affect your memory. Coming up you'll hear from two leading experts, clinical investigators about what they are learning about hormone therapy and its lasting side effects on cognitive abilities. All coming up next on Patient Power.

Hello and welcome to Patient Power. I'm Andrew Schorr. Thanks to Seattle Cancer Care Alliance for helping with a whole series of programs connecting you with leading experts. Now, as a leukemia survivor I often thought, and so did all my friends who were patients, that the heavy duty drugs that we received caused chemo brain, so we just couldn't think as clearly, couldn't remember names. Or was it just that we were in our 40s or 50s or 60s and were just getting older, or was it the drugs. And if it was the drugs was that an effect just short term or later? Well, now it's being studied more. Specifically we're studying about hormonal therapies in men who have been treated for prostate cancer, often men with more advanced prostate cancer, not always, but if they've received hormonal therapy trying to understand does that have an effect on thinking, if you will, and on memory.

Well, you're going to meet two experts who have been studying this from the University of Washington associated with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. First let's meet Dr. Tia Higano. Dr. Higano is professor of medicine, she's a medical oncologist at the University of Washington, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and she is a prostate cancer specialist. Dr. Higano, thanks for being with us. So tell us about the history of this study.

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