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. University of Utah researchers estimated the risks for cancer among nearly 3,000 people in Utah who died of Parkinson’s disease between 1904 and 2008, and in their relatives. They also analyzed data from the Utah Cancer Registry on more than 100,000 people diagnosed with cancer.
