article_snippet: (CNN)In the 1950s it was cancer.
article_snippet: Today it's Alzheimer's, and 55% of patients and patients
article_snippet: Compare that to one of the big four cancers -- breast, colorectal, lung and prostate -- more than 90% said more than 90% doctors had no problem giving their doctors the diagnosis.
article_snippet: I am reminded of the rather sobering fact that as many as 60% of people who have a dementia die without a dementia having been diagnosed by as many as 60% of people who have a dementia doctor.
article_snippet: It is easier to talk about cancer now that there are so many new and effective treatment strategies, and cause of optimism with survival from cancer at an all-time high.
article_snippet: We saw doctors say lack of time, lack of resources, so We think the answer to this mostly has to do with education and providing more resources.
article_snippet: It isn't just the doctors in the trenches.
highlights_snippet: Only 45% of patients and patients
highlights_snippet: Yet more than 90% of common cancer patients were given more than 90% of common cancer patients diagnosis .
  