Comment by throwaway2037

Comment by throwaway2037 6 months ago

    > notable impacts to short term memory and deep concentration

So these are permanent? Is it caused by the cancer or the drugs? Is there any peer-reviewed research on the matter?

To be clear, chronic absenteeism is defined by the US Dept of Education as: "students missing 10% or more of school". Eh, that is one day every two weeks. That's not so bad. Most kids can still get a pretty good education at that level.

cmclaughlin 6 months ago

Hello,

Here's more info on the side effects to memory.

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6089371/ * https://curesearch.org/Learning-Problems-During-or-After-Tre...

I think this sums it up (from the NIH study):

"methotrexate exposure has also been associated with persistent cognitive deficits among survivors, including impairments of memory, attention, and executive functions"

My daughter recovered from Leukemia (ALL). She's healthy now, but it was a nightmare. She was in the "high risk" category until the doctors realized the chemo triggered a rare kidney disorder. Once that was treated, the chemo started to work.

I've observed some issues with her memory and cognition, but I'm happy she's alive and optimistic that she'll learn to work around the challenges.

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Glyptodon 6 months ago

On absenteeism: So that's a minimum. Which comes out to 18 days most commonly. And what's happening is that a huge % of kids in various places are missing substantially more than that. If 50%+ of the kids at a school are missing 18+ days ... It's kind of wild IMO. It's on my list of things that I suspect is basically socioeconomically bimodal.

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