Major breakthrough in battle against dementia: Experts 'finally unlock' mystery of why CANCER survivors are less likely to develop cognitive disease

Why are people who survive cancer less likely to develop dementia later in life? Now researchers think they may have found the secret to this unusual link between two of the world's biggest killers.


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