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Risk of Alzheimer's disease or dementia following a cancer diagnosis.

Erin J Aiello BowlesRod L WalkerMelissa L AndersonSascha DublinPaul K CraneEric B Larson
Published in: PloS one (2017)
Our results do not support an inverse association between prevalent cancer diagnoses, which were primarily early-stage, less aggressive cancers, and risk of dementia or AD. A reduced risk of AD following an incident cancer diagnosis is biologically plausible but may reflect selective mortality.
Keyphrases
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