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ORLANDO -- Statin use was associated with a reduction of about 50% in the risk of breast, prostate, and lung cancers in three retrospective, case-control studies that mined a database containing medical records for 1.4 million veterans.
Investigators at the Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Shreveport, La., found that prescriptions for the cholesterol-lowering drugs were associated with odds ratios of 0.46 for prostate cancer, 0.49 for breast cancer, and 0.52 for lung cancer.
In three presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the researchers advocated randomized controlled trials to test the hypothesis that statins protect against cancer.
"We're not yet ready to...
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