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A scoping review of assessment tools and cognitive domains for chemo brain in cancer survivors

Not Applicable
Conditions
Cancer
Registration Number
JPRN-UMIN000047104
Lead Sponsor
Kitasato University
Brief Summary

Sixty-four prospective studies were included after checking for eligibility. The neuropsychological tests (NPTs) were divided into seven main cognitive domains. The specific mental functions were often used in the order of memory, attention, higher-level cognitive functions, and psychomotor functions. Perceptual functions were used less frequently. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive function (FACT-Cog) was a shared consensus tool among the patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete: follow-up complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
64
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

The exclusion criteria for our study are as follows: (1) no abstract (2) languages other than English (3) review article, interventional trial, and case study (4) experiments with animals (5) primary brain tumor or brain metastasis (6) unclear distinction between hormone therapy and radiation therapy (7) having any other reason that the reviewer finds to be an obvious content discrepancy. As an example of this content inconsistency, in order to examine the effect of chemotherapy treatment on cognitive impairment more purely, we excluded cases in which the main topic of the previous study was considered by the reviewers to be strongly influenced by depression, anxiety, fatigue, or anemia.

Study & Design

Study Type
Others,meta-analysis etc
Study Design
Not specified
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