Alzheimer’s disease with a reduced risk of cancer, and vice versa, according to a
study.
U.S. researchers followed 3020 people aged 65 years in the study published in the
journal Neurology.
Those who have had Alzheimer’s disease at baseline 69% less likely to be admitted
to hospital with cancer than in disease-free seed.
And people with cancer at baseline were 43% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s
than cancer.
The researchers followed the subjects for an average of five years to see if they
developed Alzheimer’s disease, and an average of eight years to see if they
developed cancer.
First, have 164 people (5.4%), Alzheimer’s disease and 522 persons (17.3%) had
been ill with cancer.
During the study 478 people developed dementia and 376 people developed an
invasive carcinoma.
The researchers emphasized that further work was needed before any conclusions
could be drawn, and said that the results do not seem fully to the whites.
Found no correlation between cancer and other forms of dementia, called vascular
dementia, which are allegedly caused by a lack of blood supply to the brain.
However, patients with this disease may die sooner than people with Alzheimer’s
disease.
The lead researcher, Dr. Catherine Roe, Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis, said this suggested the association between Alzheimer’s disease and
cancer is not just for people with these conditions before d were in the position
to the to develop state.
The discovery of the connection between these two states may help us better
understand these diseases and open new perspectives for treatment, he said.
Alzheimer’s disease and cancer are both characterized by anomalies, but the
opposite cell behavior.
In Alzheimer’s disease, excessive cell death occurs when the cancer characterized
by excessive growth of cells.
Other scientists have proposed that certain molecular pathways that influence can
contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. So we found a specific enzyme that
the target of a number of proteins, some of which are for cancer, some deleted
and others to stimulate a characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.
Rebecca Wood, Chief Research Trust Alzheimer’s disease, the study raises the hope
of new ways to prevent or treat disease.
She said: This study suggests it may be a link between cancer and Alzheimer’s,
but it is too early to say with certainty whether connections between the two
diseases.
It may be the molecular processes in Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, involved
with more research we could identify. However, said Professor Clive Ballard of
the Alzheimer’s Society, the existence of a disease can affect the symptoms,
diagnosis, and others.
More research is needed to determine whether this relationship exists. An
estimated 700,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia, a number forecast to
double within a generation.