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Cancers Tied to Lower Odds of Alzheimer's  A weak immune
response might allow skin cancer but protect brain from
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HealthDay  By Barbara Bronson Gray  HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- There's some good news for
people who have had certain kinds of skin cancer: A new study
suggests that their odds of developing Alzheimer's disease may
be significantly lower than it is for others.  People who had
non-melanoma skin cancer were nearly 80 percent less likely to
develop Alzheimer's disease than people who did not. The
association was not found with other types of dementia.  To
understand the possible association between skin cancer and
Alzheimer's, it is important to know that people have a
combination of cells that are multiplying and others that are
dying, explained study author Dr. Richard Lipton, a professor of
neurology, epidemiology and population health at the Albert E