Alzheimer's Limits Cancer Risk (part 2)

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The people that suffered from vascular dementia at the beginning of the study appeared to have no impact on hospitalization for cancer over the eight years of follow-up. But when compared to the people without Alzheimer’s, the patients with Alzheimer’s at the beginning of the study were 69 percent more likely to be hospitalized for cancer during the same time period. The risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease was also reduced by 43 percent in white patients that had a history of cancer, when compared to the participants without cancer. However, the findings did not hold for other ethnic and racial groups. This new study appears online in the January 12 issue of the journal Neurology.



Roe says that more research will be needed to determine if cancer and the degenerative brain diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, really are related. She said, “We are in the beginning stages of this research. There is a lot to be done before concluding that a link exists.

David Knopman, M.D., who is an Alzheimer’s disease specialist, agrees but says that his own clinical experience makes him think that something is going on. Knopman is currently a member of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and a professor of neurology.

Knopman said, “I see (Alzheimer’s) patients for four, five, and six years at an age when cancer is common, and they don’t seem to die of cancer as often as other patients. If there are shared genetic factors at work in cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, the Alzheimer’s community may be able to learn from cancer research and the cancer community can learn from Alzheimer’s