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Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Effects of Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy
on Return-to-Work Performance: A Preliminary Model for Research
Abstract
Current research on the cognitive sequelae of breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy continues to provide mixed evidence for the phenomenon of chemobrain. The author presents an overview of the research, then introduces a model that incorporates further investigation and calls for research informed by the return-to-work, neurorehabilitation, and social psychology fields. The model is targeted toward reducing the personal career and larger social costs that can result from the potentially deteriorating work experience of returning-to-work breast cancer survivors who have acquired cognitive deficits as a result of adjuvant chemotherapy.
Submitted by
Diana Lee Gibbons
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M Ed Degree in Educational Psychology through Community Rehabilitation and Disabilities Studies, Graduate Division of Educational Research, and the Faculty of Graduate Studies
Email: dgibbons@awfraser.com
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