Existing research has shown older people who experience memory and thinking problems have a lower risk of cancer than older people who do not have these problems. [s]Medical News Today[/s] quotes the author of a new study on 2,617 people, Dr Julián Benito-León from the [b]University Hospital[/b] in Madrid, Spain, as saying that a possible link could be that ‘cancer is under-diagnosed in people with dementia. The Benito-León study, published in [s]Neurology[/s], found that after adjusting for factors such as smoking, diabetes and heart disease, patients in the fastest mental decline group were still 30% less likely to die of cancer. There are no conclusive findings as to why this inverse association occurs.
[link url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/275373.php]Full Medical News Today report[/link]
[link url=http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2014/04/09/WNL.0000000000000350.abstract?sid=8d01da97-aa4d-417b-ab56-f618e5a7b670]Neurology abstract[/link]