Are Parkinson disease patients protected from some but not all cancers?

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There is substantial evidence based on well designed epidemiologic studies for low cancer rates in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). This risk reduction cannot be attributed to the recognized low life-long incidence of smoking in patients with PD, as not only smoking-related cancers but also non-smoking-related ones are less common in PD. Whereas the risk for most cancers appears to be relatively low in...

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