Cures for Cancer AND Alzheimer's Found

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People with Alzheimer's disease are less likely to get cancer and people with cancer are less likely to develop Alzheimer's, U.S. researchers said Wednesday.

Using data on more than 3,000 elderly volunteers, the researchers say they found that people who already had Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, were slower to develop cancer.

The study, published online in the journal Neurology, says there were people who had both diseases, but that was significantly less common than had been expected.

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