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. 2006 Mar 7;94(6):828–834. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603029

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

  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)

Missing data.

a

Time 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one nonchemotherapy patient.

b

Time 2; data missing from one healthy control.

c

Time 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one healthy control.

d

Time 3; data missing from one chemotherapy patient.

e

Time 2; data missing from one chemotherapy patient and one healthy control.

f

Time 3; data missing from two chemotherapy patients and one healthy control.