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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Apr 11;117(11):2559–2568. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25797

Table 2.

Neurocognitive problems in survivors by cancer diagnosis.

Task Efficiency Emotion Regulation Organization Memory

Diagnosis N n Impaired* n Impaired* n Impaired* n Impaired*
Leukemia 200 50 25% 21 11% 27 14% 27 14%
CNS Tumors 214 92 43% 28 13% 44 21% 50 23%
Hodgkin Lymphoma 768 120 16% 92 12% 95 12% 93 12%
Other Cancers 244 35 14% 20 8% 22 9% 16 7%
Total 1426 297 21% 161 11% 188 13% 186 13%
*

Impairment defined as a performance ≥ a symptom level reported by the highest 10% of sibling controls.