Moffitt Cancer Center recruiting healthy volunteers for "chemo brain" study

Moffitt Cancer Center is recruiting healthy volunteers to participate in a study to determine quality-of-life changes in blood and marrow transplant patients. A blood and marrow transplant (BMT) involves replacing a patient's faulty stem cells with healthy ones. Leukemia patients commonly receive this procedure to replace stem cells damaged by the high doses of chemotherapy and radiation used to treat the disease. "Research suggests that approximately 40 percent of blood and marrow transplant patients demonstrate 'chemo brain,' or chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment...

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