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Nov 30 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s exciting #lecanemab results offer our best hope yet for not only delaying symptom progression for people with early stage Alzheimer’s, but, significantly, slowing the loss of quality of life for them and their carers. @RichJamesOakley explains from #CTAD22.
He added we were pleased to see a recommitment to the National Dementia Mission on Monday but said this crucial doubling of dementia research funding must be delivered urgently to boost research for all types of dementia so no one is forgotten.
Thank you for all of the interest in these exciting drug developments. Please bear with us while we work through your questions; our research team are in San Francisco at the Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease conference. More info on lecanemab here: alzheimers.org.uk/blog/three-pro…

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