Cognitive Impairment in Adults with Non−Central Nervous System Cancers (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (03/14/2018)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Responding to Patient Reports of Cognitive Impairment

Revised list of difficulties that cancer patients might experience to include difficulty multitasking—must focus on one thing at a time; difficulty remembering common words and recalling names; and difficulty finding words.

Revised list of potential contributing factors for cognitive impairment to include age; frailty (cited 2014 Mandelblatt et al. as reference 2 and 2016 Mandelblatt et al. as reference 3); and emotional distress and/or depressive symptoms and anxiety.

Interventions for Cognitive Impairment

Added Bray et al. as reference 13.

Revised text to state that a review of mindfulness-based stress reduction studies in cancer patients found only two randomized trials with positive results, despite a small same size (cited Johns et al. as reference 28).

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