Priming the Brain Before Chemotherapy: Chronic Stress and HPA-Axis Dysregulation in Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment
Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is often attributed to chemotherapy, yet cognitive deficits are detectable in some patients before systemic treatment begins. This review examines a proposed two-hit framework in which cancer-related psychological and physiological stress contributes to pretreatment neural vul...