Table 4 Percentage of each group showing reliable decline, reliable improvement or no change for each task at T2 (T3)

From: A 3-year prospective study of the effects of adjuvant treatments on cognition in women with early stage breast cancer

 

Chemotherapy group ( n =85)

Nonchemotherapy group ( n =43)

Healthy control group ( n =49)

 

Decline

Improve

Stable

Decline

Improve

Stable

Decline

Improve

Stable

Lettera cancellation

4 (6)

2 (2)

94 (92)

0 (9)

5 (5)

95 (86)

4 (2)

4 (4)

92 (94)

AVLT supraspan

15 (14)

10 (9)

75 (77)

9 (5)

9 (5)

82 (90)

8 (6)

16 (6)

76 (88)

AVLT total

12 (12)

4 (6)

84 (82)

9 (16)

5 (12)

86 (72)

6 (8)

4 (6)

90 (86)

AVLT delayed

5 (5)

2 (5)

93 (90)

2 (0)

12 (12)

86 (88)

6 (0)

4 (6)

90 (94)

Complex figure imm.b,c

5 (5)

8 (12)

87 (83)

12 (2)

5 (13)

84 (85)

4 (4)

2 (4)

94 (92)

Complex figure del.d

7 (1)

7 (12)

86 (87)

5 (2)

2 (2)

93 (96)

2 (0)

4 (6)

94 (94)

Story imm.

8 (11)

11 (12)

81 (77)

14 (7)

14 (14)

72 (79)

6 (8)

6 (4)

88 (88)

Story del.

10 (1)

15 (8)

75 (91)

9 (5)

9 (5)

82 (90)

2 (2)

4 (4)

94 (94)

Letter/number sequencing

5 (10)

3 (5)

92 (85)

14 (9)

0 (2)

86 (89)

6 (8)

8 (4)

86 (88)

Digit span forward

6 (4)

3 (2)

91 (94)

7 (2)

0 (5)

93 (93)

10 (4)

2 (4)

88 (92)

Digit span backwards

2 (5)

0 (3)

98 (92)

7 (5)

0 (9)

93 (86)

8 (2)

4 (2)

88 (96)

Spatial span forwards

0 (2)

3 (18)

97 (80)

0 (7)

5 (9)

95 (84)

10 (6)

4 (0)

86 (94)

Spatial span backwards

5 (4)

3 (1)

92 (95)

5 (0)

7 (2)

88 (98)

2 (6)

8 (2)

90 (92)

Stroope,f

11 (4)

5 (8)

84 (88)

9 (7)

2 (9)

88 (84)

6 (4)

6 (4)

88 (92)

  1. Missing data.
  2. aTime 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one nonchemotherapy patient.
  3. bTime 2; data missing from one healthy control.
  4. cTime 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one healthy control.
  5. dTime 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient.
  6. eTime 2; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one healthy control.
  7. fTime 3; data missing from two chemotherapy patients and one healthy control.