{"id":219252,"date":"2025-08-02T00:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-discovered-in-cancer-survivors"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:07:38","slug":"potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-discovered-in-cancer-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-discovered-in-cancer-survivors","title":{"rendered":"Potential chemo-induced cognitive changes discovered in cancer survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potential-chemo-induced-cognitive-changes-discovered-in-cancer-survivors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The City College of New York have linked chemotherapy treatment to lasting cognitive changes in rats\u2014potentially shedding light, for the first time, on cognitive problems some cancer survivors experience long after treatment ends.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cChemotherapy treatment alters DNA methylation patterns in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/prefrontal+cortex\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">prefrontal cortex<\/a> of female rat brain,\u201d the study appears in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-07419-2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Scientific Reports<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study explored how chemotherapy affects the brain at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/molecular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular level<\/a> using an <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/animal+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animal model<\/a>,\u201d said Karen Hubbard, professor of biology in CCNY\u2019s Division of Science, who co-led the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The City College of New York have linked chemotherapy treatment to lasting cognitive changes in rats\u2014potentially shedding light, for the first time, on cognitive problems some cancer survivors experience long after treatment ends. Titled \u201cChemotherapy treatment alters DNA methylation patterns in the prefrontal cortex of female rat brain,\u201d the study appears in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}