People with Parkinson's disease and their relatives may be at increased risk for prostate cancer and melanoma, and people with those cancers may be at increased risk for Parkinson's, a new study suggests. The researchers found that men with Parkinson's disease and their male relatives had a significantly increased risk for prostate cancer. They also found that prostate cancer patients and their male relatives had a significantly increased risk for Parkinson's. Read more here. Read the ESMO news release here.
Study mentioned: Kareus SA, et al. Shared Predispositions of Parkinsonism and Cancer: A Population-Based Pedigree-Linked Study. Arch Neurol. 2012 Sep 3:1-6. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22945795
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