Temple University School of Pharmacy, 3307 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010;678:33-6. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6306-2_7.
Not only is chemo fog a troublesome medical problem for the sufferers, but in addition it is the source of nearly $300 million in direct and indirect expense in the United States alone each year. And since it often persists for extended periods of time, the indirect costs, which stem mainly from lost productivity, continue to accumulate with another nearly $250 million added to the overall cost each year. This is not the highest economic burden for common diseases, but it is a significant amount that could be mostly avoided if biomedical scientists were to find a means to employ safer chemotherapeutic agents.
化疗后认知障碍不仅给患者带来了麻烦，还造成了每年仅在美国就有近 3 亿美元的直接和间接经济损失。而且，由于这种认知障碍通常会持续很长时间，因此主要源于生产力损失的间接成本每年还会增加近 2.5 亿美元，使总费用达到每年近 2.5 亿美元。这并不是常见疾病中经济负担最高的，但如果生物医学科学家能够找到使用更安全的化疗药物的方法，大部分费用是可以避免的。
