Cancer and chemo brain (IMAGE)

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Cancer and chemo brain

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Jennifer Hammel (left) and Monet Roberts conduct research in senior author Jennifer Munson's Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. The team studies how chemotherapy drugs affect cognitive function — a condition commonly referred to as “chemo brain.” Its new study published in Nature Communications Biology shows chemotherapy may alter the lymphatic system in ways that influence cognition.

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