ArticleCognitive processing2021
Reproduction-related cognitive processing and distress among young adult women: the role of personal breast cancer history.
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- The Effect of Attentional Bias on Emotions in Patients with Breast Cancer.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a fertility information support scale for reproductive-aged patients with breast cancer.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2023Article
- Psychological issues in breast cancer survivors confronted with motherhood: Literature review and a call to action.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Breast cancer diagnosis can threaten fertility and biological motherhood in women of reproductive age due to the gonadotoxic effects of treatments. Much evidence documents these women fertility-related concerns and distress, but no study has attempted to understand how implicit cognitive processes can contribute to this maladjustment. In this research, we explored whether reproduction-related stimuli interfere with cognition among cancer survivors with infertility risk using an emotional Stroop task. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between reproduction-related cognitive processing and psychological morbidity. Young cancer survivors aged 18-40 years who received anticancer treatments and an age-matched non-cancer control group without known fertility problems were compared. Color-naming times and error rates were assessed. Participants in both groups were slower naming the color of reproduction-related words in comparison to unrelated negative valence words. Although in the same direction, this difference did not reach statistical significance for positive and neutral unrelated word lists. Further analysis suggested that biased attention toward reproduction-related information was associated with higher depression levels in young women with personal breast cancer history, but not in healthy women. These findings suggest that biased processing of reproduction-related cues might be a vulnerability factor after a breast cancer diagnosis. Additionally, this study puts in evidence the potential usefulness of using experimental tasks to investigate attentional bias in a context where fertility is at risk.
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