Cancer diagnoses among older people with intellectual disability compared with the general population: a national register study.
D SatgéAnna AxmonB TrétarreMagnus SandbergGerd AhlströmPublished in: Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR (2020)
Cancer was diagnosed less frequently in the ID cohort than in the gPop cohort. However, cancers of the breast and colon-rectum remain frequent in people with ID and therefore warrant prevention policies, monitoring and screening similar to those of the general population.