Table 2 Psychological tools commonly used in the literature to measure objective and subjective cognitive function (taken from Bray et al. [52], and Saita et al. [56])

• European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 (EORTC QLQ-C30)–Cognitive Functioning (EORTC-CF)

• Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function (FACT-COG)

• Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ)

• Multiple Ability Self-report Questionnaire (MASQ)

• Patient’s Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI)

• Block design

• Boston naming test

• California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)

• Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB)

• Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT)

• Digit span test

• Digit symbol/digit symbol substitution (coding) test

• Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT)

• Letter number sequencing

• Logical memory

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

• National Adult Reading Test (NART)

• Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT)

• Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)

• Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test (ROCF)

• Sorting test

• Stroop test

• Trail making test (TMT)

• Verbal Fluency Test (VFT)

• Vocabulary

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

• Word reading