Breast cancer patients | Healthy women | |
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Inclusion criteria | 1 year post-menopausal | |
Under 70 years of age | ||
At least on level 3 (end of primary schools) of the Barbizet scale | ||
French native speakers | ||
Treated with surgery or radiotherapy for a non-metastatic breast cancer | Normal cognitive function with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) score ≥ 26 | |
Radiotherapy completed about 6 months prior to the study | – | |
Non-inclusion criteria | Neurological sequelae | |
Personality disorders and progressive psychiatric disorder | ||
Drug use and/or heavy drinking | ||
Treated with chemotherapy | History of cancer, excepting basal-cell carcinoma and carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix | |
Patient with a paraneoplastic syndrome | – | |
Patient unable to perform cognitive tests | – | |
Central nervous system primitive tumour or cerebral metastases | – | |
Primitive cancer different from Breast cancer | – | |
Metastatic cancer | – | |
Cognitive disorders pre-existing to cancer diagnosis | – |