Mice with Alzheimer's disease are more resistant to the development of colorectal tumors, a study shows. An inverse relationship between Alzheimer's and cancer has already been shown in epidemiological studies in humans. An imbalance in certain intestinal bacteria contributes to this negative correlation in mice, adds the article published in PNAS.
Alzheimer tumores - Ferrán Catalá
Ferrán Catalá López
Scientist at the Center for Human and Social Sciences, IPP-CSIC, specialized in meta-research in public health, epidemiology and health services.
Although [the study is] interesting for its findings, the investigators applied animal models (small sample of mice) for their experiments, so the data in my opinion are preliminary. They should be considered with the rest of the available knowledge on the associations between Alzheimer's disease and cancer, and most importantly, they should be confirmed in further studies in human populations (health care patients).
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