Cognitive impairments in cancer patients represent an important clinical problem. Studies to date estimating prevalence of difficulties in memory, executive function, and attention deficits have been limited by small sample sizes and many have lacked healthy control groups. More information is needed on promising biomarkers and allelic variants that may help to determine the etiology of impairment, identify those most vulnerable to impairment, and develop interventions for these difficulties. This is a longitudinal observational study of cognitive function in breast cancer and lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy to better understand the prevalence of cognitive difficulties (i.e., problems with memory, executive function, and attention) in these populations.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,432
Delaware/Christiana Care NCORP
Newark, Delaware, United States
Delaware/Christiana Care NCORP (CHRISTIANA)
Newark, Delaware, United States
Heartland
Decatur, Illinois, United States
Kansas City Clinical Oncology Program
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Wichita NCORP
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Short-term memory
Change in Short-term visual memory will be assessed by the computerized Delayed Matching to Sample (DMS) task.
Time frame: Longitudinal Mixed Model assessing change over time from pre to post chemotherapy and at 6 month follow-up assessing change from pre to post chemotherapy and pre to 6 months post-chemotherapy in patients compared to controls
Attention impairment
Change in attention will be assessed by the computerized Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVP) task.
Time frame: Longitudinal Mixed Model assessing change over time from pre to post chemotherapy and at 6 month follow-up assessing change from pre to post chemotherapy and pre to 6 months post-chemotherapy in patients compared to controls
Verbal recognition memory impairment
Change in Memory (verbal) will be assessed by the computerized Verbal Recognition Memory (VRM) Task.
Time frame: Longitudinal Mixed Model assessing change over time from pre to post chemotherapy and at 6 month follow-up assessing change from pre to post chemotherapy and pre to 6 months post-chemotherapy in patients compared to controls
Executive function impairment
Change in Executive function will be assessed by the computerized One Touch Stockings of Cambridge (OTS) planning task.
Time frame: Longitudinal Mixed Model assessing change over time from pre to post chemotherapy and at 6 month follow-up assessing change from pre to post chemotherapy and pre to 6 months post-chemotherapy in patients compared to controls
Self-report score
FACT-Cog change score
Time frame: Longitudinal Mixed Model assessing change over time from pre to post chemotherapy and at 6 month follow-up assessing change from pre to post chemotherapy and pre to 6 months post-chemotherapy in patients compared to controls
short term memory
Delayed match to sample score
Time frame: 8 and/or 10 years post-chemotherapy
attention
Rapid Visual Processing speed score
Time frame: 8 and/or 10 years post-chemotherapy
Self-report score
FACT-Cog
Time frame: 8 and/or 10 years post-chemotherapy
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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