My husband was diagnosed with diabetes and prostate cancer at the same time. He hadn't been to the doctor in years. He laughed. He had some treatment for the prostate but no surgery. He quit the program. The cancer came back as a tumor in his spine. He told everyone he injured his back and was having therapy. He was paralyzed before dying. I have survived two surgeries for cancer, breast and thyroid. I have type 2 diabetes. You can imagine that I am interested in any research and development because we know that diabetes does damage to the eyes, hearing, brain, liver, and God know what else.
A few doctors call Alzheimer's disease Diabetes III because of the relationship between dementia from diabetes damage and the actual Alzheimer/s. Also loss of taste and smell is associated with dementia of some kind and even hoarding is considered by some a precursor of Alzheimer/s. We need to study.
Then there is the issue of antioxidents which are known to help lower the risk. . We are talking carbs, of course. More study is need. Dorisena