Cancer and Alzheimer’s Inverse Relationship

Cancer patients had a slower rate of cognitive decline both before and after diagnosis compared to people who did not have cancer, according to a 2019 cohort study. Furthermore, previous research has shown an inverse link between cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, and this study provides additional support for this association.

The Study: Participants and Assessments

The study cohort comprised 14,583 adults from the Health and Retirement Study. All of them were born before 1949 and had no diagnosis of cancer by 1998. The researchers followed and examined the participants closely from 1998 to 2014. During those 16 years, 12,333 participants remained …read more