Marie Lange, Hélène Castel, Johan Le Fel, Laure Tron, Didier Maillet, Myriam Bernaudin, Omar Touzani, Joy Perrier, Mathieu Boone, Idlir Licaj, Bénédicte Giffard, Martine Dubois, Olivier Rigal, Thomas Durand, Catherine Belin, Damien Ricard, Rozenn Le Gal, Véronique Pancré, Isabelle Hardy-Léger, Florence Joly
A number of neurotoxicity associated with oncological treatments has been reported in non-central nervous system cancers. An expert group presents the state of the art and a guide to help the choice of appropriated tools to assess patient cognition in studies on oncology and neurobehavior in animal models. In addition, current cognitive rehabilitation programs currently under evaluation are also discussed. Cognitive assessments in oncology depend on the research question, study design, cognitive domains, patients' characteristics, psychometric properties of the tests, and whether the tests are supervised or not by a neuropsychologist...
December 2019: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews