Mental Fog With Tamoxifen Is Real

             At the University of Rochester Medical Center, there has been data collected saying (what woman have reported) that ‘the breast cancer drug tamoxifen is toxic to cells of the brain and central nervous system, producing mental fogginess similar to “chemo brain”’. However, an article in the Journal of Neiroscience, states that researchers have discovered a drug that counteracts/rescues the brain from the effects of the drug used on breast cancer patients. Mark Noble,Ph.D., a professor of Biomedical Genetics and director of the UR Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Institute, also said “… it nonetheless produces troubling side effects in a subset of the large number of people who take it”. This just further proves that even something used to improve another can be just as dangerous. In clinical trails for the drug, a substance known as AZD6244 showed to have purged the tamoxifen-induced killing of brain cells in mice test subjects. So far in 2013, in pre-clinical research, they believe that this drug may work on aggressive triple-negative breast cancer victims.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130917181218.htm

Submitted by: Katherine Hennigan