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Cognitive tests to be covered for children fighting cancer
Source: Newsday.com
Date: 09/23/06
Headline: Cognitive tests to be covered for children fighting cancer
To watch 7-year-old Carlos Salguero practice cartwheels and sprint across his back yard, the effects of his successful battle with childhood leukemia are impossible to detect.
Yet when Carlos is in his second-grade classroom, his concentration problems and other cognitive difficulties are a reminder of the intensive chemotherapy that saved his life _ at the cost of impairing his brain development.
Date: 09/23/06
Headline: Cognitive tests to be covered for children fighting cancer
To watch 7-year-old Carlos Salguero practice cartwheels and sprint across his back yard, the effects of his successful battle with childhood leukemia are impossible to detect.
Yet when Carlos is in his second-grade classroom, his concentration problems and other cognitive difficulties are a reminder of the intensive chemotherapy that saved his life _ at the cost of impairing his brain development.
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