Having trouble remembering? Does your thinking seem fuzzy? Even years after chemotherapy, does it seem like you can’t focus and are wandering around in a fog?
Learn more about cancer treatments and thinking, memory, and attention during a free CancerCare telephone workshop.
- The Ninth Annual Cancer Survivorship Series: Living With, Through and Beyond Cancer
- Part I: Chemobrain: The Impact of Cancer Treatments on Memory, Thinking and Attention
- April 12, 2011
- 1:30 to 2:30 (Eastern)
Registration is free, but you must sign up. In addition to the telephone, the workshop will be streamed via the Internet.
Speakers include:
- Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN — Dr. Nail is the Rawlinson Distinguished Professor of Nursing in the at the Oregon Health & Science University.
- Tim A. Ahles, PhD — Dr. Ahles directs the Neurocognitive Research Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
- Patricia A. Ganz, MD — Dr. Ganz is a professor in the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
You will have an opportunity to ask questions after the talks.
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