The role of dementia diagnostic delay in the inverse cancer-dementia association.

Eleanor Hayes-LarsonCrystal ShawSarah F AckleyScott C ZimmermanM Maria GlymourRebecca E GraffJohn S WitteLindsay C KobayashiElizabeth Rose Mayeda

Published in: The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (2021)

Delays in dementia diagnosis may play a role in the inverse cancer-dementia relationship, especially for more fatal cancers, but moderate differential delays in those with cancer were needed to fully explain the literature-reported IRRs.

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