Three Studies Suggest Statins May Play Role In Cancer Treatment

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Three Studies Suggest Statins May Play Role In Cancer Treatment.

MedPage Today (4/13, Smith) reported that "three studies presented...this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research suggest – at a casual glance – that" statins may be able to "play a role in cancer treatment." In one of the studies, "investigators led by Katherine McGlynn, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., used data from a large health maintenance organization to compare 75 liver cancer patients with 373 matched controls. In a univariate analysis, statin use was associated with a statistically significant 40% reduction in the risk of liver cancer." The two other studies involved patients with breast cancer and ovarian cancer, respectively.