Are Sleep Complaints Related to Cognitive Functioning in Non-Central Nervous System Cancer? A Systematic Review

Duivon, Mylène; Giffard, Bénédicte; Desgranges, Béatrice; Perrier, Joy

doi:10.1007/s11065-021-09521-4

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“…Greater subjective sleep disturbances and insomnia severity were related to greater difficulty remembering EB intentions and retrospective components in the whole group of participants. These results are in line with previous studies in BC patients revealing a significant correlation between sleep complaint and cognitive performance (Duivon et al, 2021) including memory performance (Caplette-Gingras et al, 2013). In the present study, both groups had greater PM performance during the sleep session than during the wake session, highlighting the significant benefit of sleep on consolidation of intentions.…”

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“…studies revealed an association between sleep complaint and cognitive impairment in BC patients, including memory performance (Caplette-Gingras et al, 2013;Duivon et al, 2021). A recent study also revealed that worse cognitive functioning was predicted by poorer subjective sleep quality, less robust circadian rhythms, and longer naps but not by sleep parameters (e.g., total sleep time and wake after sleep onset) assessed by actigraphy (Ancoli-Israel et al, 2022).…”

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Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in breast cancer: Use of a virtual reality prospective memory task

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BackgroundPrevious studies have revealed both sleep alterations and prospective memory (PM) impairments in breast cancer (BC) patients. PM refers to memory of intended actions and is crucial for daily living tasks and treatment compliance. As sleep is known to favor memory consolidation, one may expect that changes in sleep quality related to BC would have an impact on PM performance. This study aimed at assessing sleep-dependent consolidation of intentions using an ecological, virtual reality-based PM task in BC patients not treated with chemotherapy.Materials and methodsThirty-seven early stages BC patients and 21 healthy controls (HC) participated in this study. PM was assessed using a virtual reality task, during which participants learnt a list of intentions and recalled them after a retention interval filled with a day awake or a night of sleep monitored by polysomnography. Sleep spindles and slow waves, brain oscillations involved in sleep-dependent memory consolidation, were quantified automatically using the Aseega software (Physip). Subjective sleep disturbances and markers of quality of life (psychological distress, fatigue, and well-being) were assessed by questionnaires.ResultsGreater PM performance was observed after sleep than after an equivalent period of daytime wakefulness for both groups (HC and BC). PM performance after sleep did not differ significantly between groups. Yet, BC patients reported greater sleep disturbances than HC which were related with poorer intentions retrieval, greater psychological distress, fatigue and poorer well-being. The frequency of spindles was higher and the amplitude of slow waves lower in BC patients compared to HC. However, no significant association was observed between polysomnography parameters and PM scores in the whole sample of participants.ConclusionAlthough subtle changes in brain oscillations involved in sleep-dependent memory consolidation were observed, these changes did not significantly impair overnight PM consolidation in BC patients. Nevertheless, poorer PM performance was associated with greater sleep complaints which in turn were related to poorer quality of life. Overall, these data suggest that sleep-dependent PM consolidation mechanisms are not altered in early stages BC patients not treated with chemotherapy. Further investigations are needed to understand the association between markers of quality of life and sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

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Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in breast cancer: Use of a virtual reality prospective memory task

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“…Interestingly, higher levels of fatigue and sleep disturbance that exceeded clinically meaningful cutoffs were associated with all classes across the AFI subscales. These findings are consistent with our previous report that used the AFI total scores [30] and with other studies that found that higher levels of anxiety [12,18,27,59], depression [12,59], fatigue [12,60], and sleep disturbance [12,59,61] were associated with CRCI. These findings suggest that CRCI and common co-occurring symptoms may share the same underlying mechanism(s) that affect working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility.…”

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Pre-Surgery Demographic, Clinical, and Symptom Characteristics Associated with Different Self-Reported Cognitive Processes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Allemann-Su

Vetter²,

Koechlin

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Cancers

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Cancer related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is a common and persistent symptom in breast cancer patients. The Attentional Function Index (AFI) is a self-report measure that assesses CRCI. AFI includes three subscales, namely effective action, attentional lapses, and interpersonal effectiveness, that are based on working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. Previously, we identified three classes of patients with distinct CRCI profiles using the AFI total scores. The purpose of this study was to expand our previous work using latent class growth analysis (LCGA), to identify distinct cognitive profiles for each of the AFI subscales in the same sample (i.e., 397 women who were assessed seven times from prior to through to 6 months following breast cancer surgery). For each subscale, parametric and non-parametric statistics were used to determine differences in demographic, clinical, and pre-surgical psychological and physical symptoms among the subgroups. Three-, four-, and two-classes were identified for the effective action, attentional lapses, and interpersonal effectiveness subscales, respectively. Across all three subscales, lower functional status, higher levels of anxiety, depression, fatigue, and sleep disturbance, and worse decrements in energy were associated with worse cognitive performance. These and other modifiable characteristics may be potential targets for personalized interventions for CRCI.

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“…For instance, the use of polysomnography (when possible) would help better understanding changes to sleep architecture that occur in cancer patients. Moreover, using polysomnography would facilitate the study of memory consolidation during sleep, known to be altered during wake in cancer (Perrier et al, 2020 ; Duivon et al, 2021 ). Moreover, additional studies of sleep and circadian rhythms are needed in relation to cancer treatments beyond chemotherapy, such as endocrine- and immune therapies, with the former being proposed to most breast cancer patients for at least 5 years and that may also impact cognitive functioning (Wu and Amidi, 2017 ).…”

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Editorial: Sleep and circadian rhythms in cancer patients and their relationship with quality of life

Perrier

Giffard

et al. 2022

Front. Neurosci.

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Editorial on the Research Topic Sleep and circadian rhythms in cancer patients and their relationship with quality of lifeWe spend around one third of our lives sleeping and a good night of sleep is critical for many important functions such as learning and memory, brain restoration and plasticity, and immune functioning. Furthermore, inadequate sleep and insomnia are linked to numerous illnesses including metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Cancer patients have frequent complaints of insomnia, with a high prevalence of 30-60% before, during and after treatment (Savard et al., 2011). There is also emerging evidence of circadian disruption associated with cancer and cancer treatments, which may underlie and exacerbate commonly reported symptoms of depressed mood, fatigue, cognitive complaints and sleep disturbances (

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Are Sleep Complaints Related to Cognitive Functioning in Non-Central Nervous System Cancer? A Systematic Review

Cited by 7 publications

References 107 publications

Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in breast cancer: Use of a virtual reality prospective memory task

Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in breast cancer: Use of a virtual reality prospective memory task

Pre-Surgery Demographic, Clinical, and Symptom Characteristics Associated with Different Self-Reported Cognitive Processes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Editorial: Sleep and circadian rhythms in cancer patients and their relationship with quality of life

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