Cancer survivors had a substantially lower risk of probable Alzheimer’s disease (hazard ratio 0.67, 95% confidence interval 0.47 to 0.97), adjusted for age, sex, and smoking (table 3 ), but the lower risks of any Alzheimer’s disease (0.81) and any dementia (0.83) did not reach statistical significance.
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Inverse association between cancer and Alzheimer's disease: results from the Framingham Heart Study.
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