Studies Suggest Statins Slash Cancer Risk
Sun Jun 6, 2004 06:13 PM ET
By Ransdell Pierson
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may prevent various forms of cancer, including prostate and colon cancer, two teams of researchers said on Sunday.
Israelis who took statins had a 51 percent lower risk of developing colon cancer than those who did not take the drugs, Dr. Stephen Gruber of the University of Michigan told a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
A second study at Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute showed that men who took statins had a 58 percent lower risk of prostate cancer.
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