Chemotherapy Induced Cognitive and Executive Impairment in Hematological Malignancies

Abstract

As regarding the worldwide updates and re-evolution of chemotherapy, tumor management had been real and percentages of cure had become possible and remission percentages nowadays are going upward. Chemotherapy side effects appear to be more prominent and further interest in post-chemotherapy complications management is now a fact. Chemotherapy induced cognitive impairment is one of the most prominent side effects as it negatively impact activities of daily living of the patients Thus, many studies carried out to discuss this specific point revealing in total: some ideas about the main causes, how to diagnose, tests, correlations with other factors, predisposing factors, and management. All these effort spent over years, but the actual mechanism is still unknown and we have only theories At this study, we targeted our effort to find out a correlation between this cognitive insult with many factors like age, sex, type of malignancy, type of chemotherapy, duratio