Melanoma patients have fourfold higher risk of developing Parkinson’s and vice versa

People with the movement disorder Parkinson's disease have a much higher risk of the skin cancer melanoma, and vice versa, a Mayo Clinic study finds. While further research is needed into the connection, physicians treating one disease should be vigilant for signs of the other and counsel those patients about risk, the authors say. The ["]

The post Melanoma patients have fourfold higher risk of developing Parkinson's and vice versa appeared first on Outbreak News Today.